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Reference to these laws extends back at least to June of 1980, when an article O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion appeared in Esquire magazine. A version printed in 1994 by the IEEE in a journal for engineers helped spread the word among the technical crowd, which has expanded and refined the idea. Dozens of websiteA website or Web site (often shortened to a site is a collection of webpages, that is, documents accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet. The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the sams exist outlining these laws.
Adherents of evolutionary psychologyEvolutionary psychology or (EP) proposes that human cognition and behavior could be better understood by examining them in light of human evolutionary history. Specifically, EP proposes that the brain comprises a large number of functional mechanisms, cal have suggested that the humorous effect of cartoon physics is a consequence of the interplay of different mental modules adapted to physicsPhysics (from the Greek, physikos , "natural", and physis , "Nature") is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-microscopic particles from whi and psychologyPsychology is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. It is largely concerned with humans, although the behaviour and thought of animals is also studied; either as a subject in its own right (see animal cognition), or more controversially, as a way of respectively. The physics module predicts that the cartoon character will fall over the cliff immediately, while the psychology module is drawn to anthropomorphize the force of gravity and thus model it as being vulnerable to deception by an actor who is self-deceived.