[neuronerdgirl]

My first thought was the actual publication reads like a student paper, especially the methods. Lo and behold:

> Acknowledgments

The Skaggs Faculty Mentoring Award at BYU for its financial support to mentor undergraduate students in research.

Yea. Overall, the methodology itself appears sound, though this subject is outside my own wheelhouse and I don't feel like doing a full review. But stuff like this:

> Knowing the existence of statistical clusters naturally leads to seeking to discern between those clusters globally and locally, that is, are these clusters arranged in different places in the images between genders and if so, where at?

is really odd to see in a methods section. My biggest surface critique, though, and a knock on both the faculty advisor and the peer reviewers/editors for this journal, is that there is zero explanation of how the authors operationalized "entrapment" in their photos. Moreover, there was nothing stopping them from just explicitly excluding people who were familiar with their non-BYU locations (it's a simple Qualtrics option) which would have strengthened their operationalization of familiar va unfamiliar.

That said, it's an interesting study and a clever way to look at the question in a large group with limited time resources. I'd like to see a VR version with eye tracking for better real-world fidelity.