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  2. South-up map orientation - Wikipedia

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    Political map of Europe, showing south at the top. Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences. In general, north is associated with richer people, more expensive real estate, and higher altitude, while south is associated with poorer people, cheaper prices, and lower altitude (the "north-south bias").

  3. Americentrism - Wikipedia

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    A 1912 newspaper cartoon highlighting the United States' influence in Latin America following the Monroe Doctrine. Americentrism, also known as American-centrism [1] or US-centrism, is a tendency to assume the culture of the United States is more important than those of other countries or to judge foreign cultures based on American cultural standards.

  4. Mental mapping - Wikipedia

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    Mental maps have also been used to describe the urban experience of children. In a 2008 study by Olga den Besten mental maps were used to map out the fears and dislikes of children in Berlin and Paris. The study looked into the absence of children in today's cities and the urban environment from a child's perspective of safety, stress and fear ...

  5. Azimuthal equidistant projection - Wikipedia

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    If the azimuthal equidistant projection map is centered about a point whose antipodal point lies on land and the map is extended to the maximum distance of 20,000 km (12,427 mi) the antipode point smears into a large circle. This is shown in the example of two maps centered about Los Angeles, and Taipei.

  6. Eurocentrism - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Eastern Hemisphere from Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History. "The bright colors denote those countries that are the Subjects of history, previous to the discovery of America". Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) [1] refers to viewing the West as the

  7. Cognitive geography - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive geography is an interdisciplinary study of cognitive science and geography.It aims to understand how humans view space, place, and environment. It involves formalizing factors that influence our spatial cognition to create a more effective representation of space.

  8. Center of population - Wikipedia

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    It is important to use a method that does not depend on a two-dimensional projection when dealing with the entire world. In a study from the Institut national d'études démographiques, [4] the solution methodology deals only with the globe. As a result, the answer is independent of which map projection is used or where it is centered. As ...

  9. Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world - Wikipedia

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    The map is updated and modified regularly along with the new waves of data from the World Values Survey. The different versions are available at the website of the World Values Survey. [13] An early version of the map was published by Ronald Inglehart in 1997 with the dimensions named "Traditional vs. Secular-Rational Authority" and "Survival vs.