Using data from a large-scale field study, we show that (perceptions of) crowding change(s) the composition of consumer's shopping basket. Specifically, as shoppers experience more crowding, their basket contains (a) relatively affect-rich (“hedonic”) products, and (b) national brands. We offer plausible dual-process explanation for this phenomenon: Crowding induced distraction limits cognitive...

Recent results support the notion that macromolecular 'crowding' enhances protein aggregation, at the expense of correct folding. The results can be rationalised in terms of kinetic competition between distinct processes, taking into account the relative influence of crowding on each process.

Crowding is a fundamental bottleneck in object recognition. In crowding, an object in the periphery becomes unrecognizable when surrounded by clutter or distractor objects. Crowding depends on the positions of target and distractors, both their eccentricity and their relative spacing. In all previous studies, position has been expressed in terms of retinal position. However, in a number of situ...

Reversible diffusion limited cluster aggregation of hard spheres with rigid bonds was simulated and the self-diffusion coefficient was determined for equilibrated systems. The effect of increasing attraction strength was determined for systems at different volume fractions and different interaction ranges. It was found that the slowing down of the diffusion coefficient due to crowding is decoup...

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Observers usually cannot discriminate the relative depth of a crowded feature with respect to crowding features about 2 arc min distant if all the features have the same luminance. However, stereo thresholds significantly less than 20 arc sec are obtained when the crowded feature is about twice as luminant as the features crowding it. The thresholds depend only upon the ratio of the luminance o...

The interiors of cells are crowded, thus making it important to assess the effects of macromolecules on the folding of proteins. Using the self-organized polymer (SOP) model, which is a coarse-grained representation of polypeptide chains, we probe the mechanical stability of ubiquitin (Ub) monomers and trimers ((Ub)(3)) in the presence of monodisperse spherical crowding agents. Crowding increas...