The Problem With Slow Motion
Marlene Breverman stashed this in Slow motion Perception
The key piece of evidence was a surveillance video of the shooting, which the jury saw both in real time and in slow motion. The jury found that Mr. Lewis had acted with premeditation, and he was sentenced to death.
Mr. Lewis appealed the decision, arguing that the slow-motion video was prejudicial. Specifically, he claimed that watching the video in slow motion artificially stretched the relevant time period and created a “false impression of premeditation.” Did it?
http://nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/the-problem-with-slow-motion.html
Stashed in: Time, Slow Mo!, SLOWM
We recently conducted a series of experiments whose results are strikingly consistent with that claim. Our studies, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that seeing replays of an action in slow motion leads viewers to believe that the actor had more time to think before acting than he actually did. The result is that slow motion makes actions seem more intentional, more premeditated.
If only we could really slow down time.
3:36 PM Aug 05 2016