ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2018
Gaze following in multiagent contexts: Evidence for a quorum-like principle.
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- Influences of eye gaze cues on memory and its mechanisms: The function and evolution of social attention.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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- ERP evidence on how gaze convergence affects social attention.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Research shows that humans spontaneously follow another individual's gaze. However, little remains known on how they respond when multiple gaze cues diverge across members of a social group. To address this question, we presented participants with displays depicting three (Experiment 1) or five (Experiment 2) agents showing diverging social cues. In a three-person group, one individual looking at the target (33% of the group) was sufficient to elicit gaze-facilitated target responses. With a five-person group, however, three individuals looking at the target (60% of the group) were necessary to produce the same effect. Gaze following in small groups therefore appears to be based on a quorum-like principle, whereby the critical level of social information needed for gaze following is determined by a proportion of consistent social cues scaled as a function of group size. As group size grows, greater agreement is needed to evoke joint attention.
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