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[image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] Just emerged from the Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam. I cannot imagine.... Psychology gives no bearings! On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > When you see a tunnel - any tunnel - what is the first thing you think > of? For most people it seems to be '*Where does it go t*o?". A much > smaller number of people (from my limited ad hoc personal sample anyway) > think "*What is this tunnel passing through*?". One might also first > think "*What passed / passes through this tunnel*?". Or relatedly, "*Why > was this tunnel built?*" Or perhaps other questions I haven't thought of > here. > > Has anyone researched a psychology of these first thoughts, what sort of > personality thinks of what sort of question first, on seeing a tunnel image? > > Dr Hillary Shaw > Food and Supply Chain Management Department > Harper Adams University College > Newport > Shropshire > TF10 8NB > www.fooddeserts.org > *When you first buy that must-have item you didn't even know you needed, > never query why you didn't know you needed it. This question is > potentially threatening to globalisation and will really annoy a marketing > team somewhere in the USA.* > -- Dr. Ken Whalen Lecturer Environmental Studies and Geography & Development Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Universiti Brunei Darussalam Jalan Tungku Link Gadong, BE 1410 Brunei Darussalam Ph: +673 246 3001 Ext. 1768 www.ubd.edu.bn