ArticlePsychological research2020
Social inclusion, but not exclusion, delays attentional disengagement from direct gaze.
Article in Psychological research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Avoiding the dichotomy between endogenous and exogenous attention: Selective attention as an attentional priority map fed by multiple interacting attentional signals.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Direct and averted gaze modulate the event-related brain responses to social exclusion signals.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social excluder's face reduces gaze-triggered attention orienting.Psychological research · 2024Article
- A boost in self-esteem after positive social evaluation predicts social and non-social learning.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Exploring the Social Environment with the Eyes: A Review of the Impact of Facial Stimuli on Saccadic Trajectories.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Social contacts and loneliness affect the own age bias for emotional faces.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Direct Gaze Holds Attention, but Not in Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Social modulators of gaze-mediated orienting of attention: A review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- Turning Away From Averted Gazes: The Effect of Social Exclusion on Gaze Cueing.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated whether another person's direct gaze holds a perceiver's visuospatial attention and whether social exclusion or social inclusion would enhance this effect. Participants were socially excluded, socially included, or underwent a non-social control manipulation in a virtual ball-tossing game. The manipulation was followed by an attentional disengagement task, in which we measured manual response times in identification of peripheral stimuli shown to the left or right of centrally presented faces portraying direct or downward gaze. Contrary to our hypotheses, the response times were not, in general, longer for direct gaze trials than downward gaze trials, and exclusion did not increase the delay in direct gaze trials. Instead, we discovered that, in the social inclusion group, the response times were longer for direct gaze trials relative to downward gaze trials. Thus, social inclusion might have activated affiliation-related cognitive processes leading to delayed attentional disengagement from faces cueing affiliation.
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