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field dependence

American

noun

a psychological trait associated with having an external locus of orientation (field independence ).

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field-dependent adjective

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Studies have also pointed to a person's posture, ethnicity, and field dependence or independence — how much of the background they absorb while looking at an object — as changing susceptibility to sickness, but much of this research was conducted before this current wave of headsets arrived on the scene.

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