Jeanine Stefanucci

Why You Feel the Urge to Jump

When it comes to heights, there is more going on than the projection of past anxieties, as once thought. The nature of extreme heights mixes together sense perceptions, body kinesthetics, and our mental states. Jeanine says “We take perception as the grounded truth: Seeing is believing”. She studies how emotions, age, and physical condition change how we relate to space, especially vertical space. For complete story see: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-you-feel-the-urge-to-jump