Eric L. G. Legge, Marcia L. Spetch, Andrew Cenkner, Vadim Bulitko, Craig Anderson, Matthew Brown, Donald Heth

Little is known about the strategies people use to effectively hide objects from others, or to search for objects others have hidden. The present research extends a recent investigation of people’s hiding and searching strategies in a simple room with 9 cache location. In the present studies, people hid and searched for three objects under more than 70 floor tiles in complex real and virtual rooms. Experiment 1 replicated several finding of Talbot et al within the more complex real and virtual environments. Specifically, people traveled further from origin and selected more dispersed locations when hiding than when searching. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that: 1) people were attracted to … Continue reading Eric L. G. Legge, Marcia L. Spetch, Andrew Cenkner, Vadim Bulitko, Craig Anderson, Matthew Brown, Donald Heth