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Strong Emotions May Cause Temporary Blindness

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-not-my-fault dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Ever been watching tv when a violent image comes on the screen and you don't even notice that somebody just entered the room? You've just encountered something known as emotion-induced blindness. Psychologists at Vanderbilt and Yale Universities have determined that people can suffer short periods of blindness, up to 1/2 a second in length, immediately after seeing highly emotional images. By displaying a series of images for 1/10 of a second each they were able to determine that test subjects couldn't identify images shown immediately after very erotic or gory images. You can try this out for yourself at the flash-based test site they have set up which also contains more details of the experiments."

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  1. goaste.cx? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    is that why im blind?

    1. Re:goaste.cx? by BottleCup · · Score: 5, Funny

      Isn't it goatse.cx anyway? yes, he misspelled it because he was temporarily blind.

  2. On Slashdot? by maxmg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's a very good idea to put a reference to erotic images and a link to a flash-based site on the main page of slashporn^H^H^H^Hdot.

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    1. Re:On Slashdot? by screwballicus · · Score: 4, Funny

      But an astute observation, consequently. Erotic images of Slashdotters might indeed be expected to cause not only temporary but indeed much more permanent forms of blindness amongst afflicted test subjects.

  3. VBScript by hattan · · Score: 5, Funny

    It all makes sense now. I was wondering why I could never find the mouse after reading VB code.

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  4. Re:Situational awareness by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many times have you missed the doorbell, telephone or significant other

          I never miss my significant other. I frag her all the time, DIE BIATCH lol lol 5h3 iz 5o l4/v\3 lol pWn3d a64iN!!!!

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  5. Like I'm gonna click that link by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that this is the most elaborate Goatse troll ever.

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  6. I saw... by Blitzenn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I saw my mom having sex once, I never saw the same after that. Is that the same thing?

  7. Re:Situational awareness by Mancow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of the episode of King Of The Hill where Hank went blind at Christmas after seeing his mom having sex...