ArticleCognitive processing2017
The appeal of the devil's eye: social evaluation affects social attention.
Article in Cognitive processing, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Face mask reduces gaze-cueing effect.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Linguistic identity as a modulator of gaze cueing of attention.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Guilt-inducing interaction with others modulates subsequent attentional orienting via their gaze.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Socially induced negative affective knowledge modulates early face perception but not gaze cueing of attention.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- Is 'heavy' up or down? Testing the vertical spatial representation of weight.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Does self-construal shape automatic social attention?PloS one · 2021Article
- Social modulators of gaze-mediated orienting of attention: A review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- Examining joint attention with the use of humanoid robots-A new approach to study fundamental mechanisms of social cognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- The Effect of Trust on Gaze-Mediated Attentional Orienting.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Seeing eye-to-eye: Social gaze interactions influence gaze direction identification.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
- How social exclusion modulates social information processing: A behavioural dissociation between facial expressions and gaze direction.PloS one · 2018Article
- Attention holding elicited by direct-gaze faces is reflected in saccadic peak velocity.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Humans typically exhibit a tendency to follow the gaze of conspecifics, a social attention behaviour known as gaze cueing. Here, we addressed whether episodically learned social knowledge about the behaviours performed by the individual bearing the gaze can influence this phenomenon. In a learning phase, different faces were systematically associated with either positive or negative behaviours. The same faces were then used as stimuli in a gaze-cueing task. The results showed that faces associated with antisocial norm-violating behaviours triggered stronger gaze-cueing effects as compared to faces associated with sociable behaviours. Importantly, this was especially evident for participants who perceived the presented norm-violating behaviours as far more negative as compared to positive behaviours. These findings suggest that reflexive attentional responses can be affected by our appraisal of the valence of the behaviours of individuals around us.
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