[1] Thin-slice vision refers to the accuracy with which observers are able to correctly identify imperceptible characteristics of a person after watching the individual alone or acting in a group for only a short amount of time.
[12] In another example of attitudes being quickly perceived in thin-slice videos, subjects were given ten-second silent clips of teachers giving a lecture to a classroom.
Judges who believed the defendant would be found guilty were seen as less warm, competent, and wise in the clip while additionally appearing more anxious.
[15] In another study that presented observers with silenced admissions interviews at a psychiatric hospital, both experts and non-experts in mental health were correct in assessing whether patients did or did not suffer with depression 88% of the time on average.
A series of studies in 1999 provided observers with silent clips that were either ten-seconds or one-second long in which heterosexual and homosexual subjects discussed their academic and extracurricular activities.
[22] Another set of studies had observers examine silent thin-slice clips where two strangers were asked to plan a trip around the world together.
[3] These results range from the effectiveness of teachers during instruction to the future performance of health practitioners or likelihood of a crime being committed, all judged from silent clips.
In 1993, college and high school teachers were videotaped while teaching classes, and silent thin-slice videos of these lectures were provided to naïve judges.
[25] An additional study provided observers with one-minute slices of silent behavior where physical therapists interacted with elderly patients.
The more the observers rated the practitioners as distant, the less likely patients were able to pursue daily living activities such as bathing or walking after discharge.
[26] Much of the behavior prediction research that has occurred in the thin-slice domain of social vision has been focused on the topic of criminal justice.
[34] Body motion is highly diagnostic of sex category membership, and observers have proven to reliably identify the gender of a walker in a point-light display.
[35] Untrained observers have additionally proven to be adept at assessing another person's reproductive fitness based on light display motion.
[38] People have also proven to be highly reliable at detecting an individual's sexual orientation from dynamic motion in point-light displays as well.
[28] However, this leads to the prediction that difficulty in social interaction may be in part due to the inability to read body motion accurately.