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1. Cognitive load, fatigue and aversive simulator symptoms but not manipulated zeitgebers affect duration perception in virtual reality

Author

Magdalena Sabat, Bartosz Haładus, Michał Klincewicz, and Grzegorz J. Nalepa

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract The perceived duration of an interval depends on numerous aspects of the passed event both endogenous, including physiological arousal, level of wakefulness, attention, and surprise, as well as exogenous such as valence, salience, or context in the environment. There is some evidence that "time-giving" cues from the environment (zeitgebers) are coupled with time perception. The movement of the sun on the horizon was demonstrated to affect interval perception in a study conducted by Schatzschneider et al. (2016) claiming that the sun’s motion is a zeitgeber that influences time perception. In the present study, we undertake the first to our knowledge replication of this effect, extending the analysis to confounding aspects of the used paradigm. We aimed to test the effect of immersion, cognitive load, and changes in the speed of the sun on the horizon of the virtual environment on the perceived interval duration. We did not replicate the original effect, as reported by Schatzschneider et al., however, we did find that the perceived duration of an interval was affected by cognitive load, fatigue, and unpleasant symptoms caused by VR. In our analysis, we used Bayesian statistics to support our conclusion and offer its results as having some important consequences for the field.

Published
2022
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2. A Sex Work Research Symposium: Examining Positionality in Documenting Sex Work and Sex Workers’ Rights

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Megan Lowthers, Magdalena Sabat, Elya M. Durisin, and Kamala Kempadoo

Subjects
conference proceedings, sex work, sex workers’ rights, research methods, reflexivity, positionality, sexual economies, technology, Social Sciences
Abstract

Historically, academic literature on sex work has documented the changing debates, policies, and cultural discourse surrounding the sex industry, and their impact on the rights of sex workers worldwide. As sex work scholars look to the future of sex workers’ rights, however, we are also in a critical moment of self-reflection on how sex work scholarship engages with sex worker communities, produces knowledge surrounding sex work, and represents the lived experiences of sex workers’ rights, organizing, and activism. In this short Communication, proceedings from a recent sex work research symposium entitled, Sexual Economies, Politics, and Positionality in Sex Work Research are presented. Held at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, this symposium is a response to the need for sex work researchers, sex workers, and sex worker-led organizations to come together and critically examine the future of research on sex work and the politics of documenting sex workers’ rights.

Published
2017
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3. From red light to black light

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Magdalena Sabat

Subjects
Urban Studies, Entertainment, Spatial transformation, Theme park, Geography, Consumerism, Geography, Planning and Development, Sex workers, Advertising, Red light, Black light, Visual arts
Abstract

Looking at a 1960s image of the Amsterdam Red Light District and an image of it today means looking at two different places. Post-World War II images of the zone and photographs of the interiors of windows today show a spatial transformation during the last half-century. Prostitutes sitting inside living rooms by red lampshades have been replaced with sex workers standing in body-sized glass doorways, lit-up from behind in red and black light. On the outside, the red light window is a glowing advertisement with an aesthetic common globally among lower-end establishments of the sex industry. On the inside, the interior adheres to the new legislative health and safety standards. The Amsterdam Red Light District has become a monitored, adult mass entertainment zone that caters to the ranging desires of its international visitors and adheres to global standards of sex consumerism. This paper analyzes the infrastructural and aesthetic changes in the Red Light District, specifically the interior of red light wi...

Published
2012
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4. Re-making a landscape of prostitution: the Amsterdam Red Light District: introduction

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Magdalena Sabat, Manuel B. Aalbers, and Geographies of Globalizations (GoG, AISSR, FMG)

Subjects
Urban Studies, Entertainment, Politics, Economic growth, Urban planning, Geography, Planning and Development, Legislature, Sociology, Red light, Public administration, Gentrification, Cultural globalization, Sex work
Abstract

The Amsterdam Red Light District is locally and internationally significant as one of the oldest venues for visible and legal urban prostitution. Internationally it is perceived as a free-for-all zone of entertainment, a kind of ‘theme park’ for adult fun. Locally the Red Light District is a controversial place that stirs debates on Dutch ‘progressive’ policies, the impact of cultural globalization and importantly, whether or not prostitution should be allowed to exist in this kind of visible format in Amsterdam's center. Recent urban planning changes in the area, instigated by City authorities, show the Red Light District is directly implicated in municipal gentrifying efforts, efforts that put at risk historic margins like the Red Light District. The paper introduces themes that will be discussed in depth by the special feature contributors: the red light district as a ‘moral region’, historical and legislative perspectives, political understanding and enactment of ‘liberal’ policies and municipal use of these concepts to self-brand, commercial and aesthetic character of the zone in view of the global sex industry, and the role of artists as cultural producers and marginal gentrifiers. This introductory paper to the special feature on the Red Light District of Amsterdam offers an overview of key perspectives on red light zones and specifically addresses how the Amsterdam Red Light District both fits, and is an exception to visible urban zones of prostitution.

Published
2012

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