The Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life
The Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life
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情感的时刻，或见证生命的时刻
DOI：
10.1086/421163
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发表时间：
2004
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Mark B. N. Hansen
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作者：
Mark B. N. Hansen
进入画廊，映入眼帘的是三台并排放置的壁挂式等离子显示器，上面显示着三个中年人的脸：两边各一个女人，中间一个男人（图1）。您逐渐接近这组显示器，直到距离几英尺；你站稳脚跟，将注意力集中在左边的脸上，这是一位亚洲女性的脸（图 2）。您专心地观看该图像大约一分钟左右；据你所知，这张脸显示出某种中性情绪状态的迹象，就好像这位女士不太确定自己在看什么（是不是你？），正在努力解决这个问题。然而，比表达本身更引人注目的是，它似乎并没有发生任何变化，而且事实上，你发现自己很难在这个所谓的移动图像中察觉到任何运动。你有些困惑，向右迈了大约一英尺，注视着中间那张没有刮胡子、略显灰白的白色男性脸。就像你刚才遇到的那个女人一样，这张脸表现出中性的表情；然而，在这种情况下，它表明了对某些个人事物的反思以及对周围环境的某种遗忘（图 3）。然而，在意识到这个表达的意义之后，你会再次被图像中奇怪的停滞所震惊；尽管它显然在时间上移动，但偶尔的眨眼或抽搐会暴露出这一点，但你看不到其他明显的动作或面部表情的变化。向右再迈一步，你现在可以看到第二张女性面孔，一个白色的卷发女人（图 4）。毫不奇怪，你也会经历类似的经历，尽管这一次你不太注意中性表情本身、女人的斜视和微微撅起的嘴唇，而是把注意力集中在辨别图像中哪怕是最轻微的变化上。经过几分钟的高度集中注意力后，
Upon entering the gallery, you catch sight of threewall-mountedplasma monitors, placed side-by-side, on which are displayed the faces of three middle-aged individuals: a woman on each side and in the middle, a man (fig. 1). You gradually approach this grouping of monitors until you are several feet away; you plant your feet and focus in on the face on the left, that of an Asian woman (fig. 2). You look intently at this image for perhaps a minute or so; as far as you can tell the face shows signs of some neutral emotional state, as if the woman, not quite certain of what she is looking at (is it meant to be you?), were struggling to get a fix on it. More striking than the expression itself, however, is the fact that it doesn’t seem to be changing in anyway, and, indeed, youfindyourself hard-pressed toperceive any movement whatsoever in this allegedly moving image. Somewhat befuddled, you step about a foot to the right and fix on the white, unshaven, slightly graying, male face in the middle. Like the woman you just encountered, this face displays a neutral expression; yet, in this case, it is one that indicates reflection about something personal and a certain obliviousness to its surroundings (fig. 3). Again, however, having registered the significance of the expression, you are struck by the odd stasis of the image; though it is clearly moving in time, as the occasional blink or twitch betrays, you can discern no other significant movement or change in the facial expression. Stepping still another foot to your right, you now fix on the second female face, a white, curly-haired woman (fig. 4). Not surprisingly, youundergo a similar experience, though this time you pay less attention to the neutral expression itself, to thewoman’s sideways glance and slightlypursed lips, and focus your attention ondiscerning even the slightest hintof change in the image. After intense concentration over the span of several minutes,