Are you looking at me: The effects of gaze direction on social cognition

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Neil Macrae ◽  
Malia Mason
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Gaze Direction

The Look of Love

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malia F. Mason ◽  
Elizabeth P. Tatkow ◽  
C. Neil Macrae
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Gaze Direction ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Gaze Shifts ◽  
Attentional Engagement ◽  
The Look ◽  
Gaze Cues

Gaze direction is a vital communicative channel through which people transmit information to each other. By signaling the locus of social attention, gaze cues convey information about the relative importance of objects, including other people, in the environment. For the most part, this information is communicated via patterns of gaze direction, with gaze shifts signaling changes in the objects of attention. Noting the relevance of gaze cues in social cognition, we speculated that gaze shifts may modulate people's evaluations of others. We investigated this possibility by asking participants to judge the likability (Experiment 1) and physical attractiveness (Experiment 2) of targets displaying gaze shifts indicative of attentional engagement or disengagement with the participants. As expected, person evaluation was moderated by the direction of gaze shifts, but only when the judgment under consideration was relevant to participants. We consider how and when gaze shifts may modulate person perception and its associated behavioral products.

scholarly journals Social Cognition Modulates the Sensory Coding of Observed Gaze Direction

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 1274-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Teufel ◽  
Dean M. Alexis ◽  
Helena Todd ◽  
Adam J. Lawrance-Owen ◽  
Nicola S. Clayton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Gaze Direction ◽  
Sensory Coding

Objects Capture Perceived Gaze Direction

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janek S. Lobmaier ◽  
Martin H. Fischer ◽  
Adrian Schwaninger
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Local Features ◽  
Gaze Direction ◽  
Head Orientation ◽  
Gaze Perception ◽  
Mouse Cursor ◽  
Fixation Points ◽  
Normal Adults

The interpretation of another person's eye gaze is a key element of social cognition. Previous research has established that this ability develops early in life and is influenced by the person's head orientation, as well as local features of the person's eyes. Here we show that the presence of objects in the attended space also has an impact on gaze interpretation. Eleven normal adults identified the fixation points of photographed faces with a mouse cursor. Their responses were systematically biased toward the locations of nearby objects. This capture of perceived gaze direction probably reflects the attribution of intentionality and has methodological implications for research on gaze perception.

Effect of Gaze Direction on Orienting of Attention in Patients with Schizophrenia: Attention or Social Cognition Deficit?

2015 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Chiara Pino Melania Mariano ◽  
Alessandro Valchera Marco Valenti ◽  
Domenico De Berardis Monica Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Gaze Direction

Refining our understanding of the “elephant in the room”

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whiten
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Technological Culture

Abstract The authors do the field of cultural evolution a service by exploring the role of non-social cognition in human cumulative technological culture, truly neglected in comparison with socio-cognitive abilities frequently assumed to be the primary drivers. Some specifics of their delineation of the critical factors are problematic, however. I highlight recent chimpanzee–human comparative findings that should help refine such analyses.

A little too technical: The threat of intellectualising technical reasoning

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Technical Reasoning

Abstract Osiurak and Reynaud (O&R) claim that research into the origin of cumulative technological culture has been too focused on social cognition and has consequently neglected the importance of uniquely human reasoning capacities. This commentary raises two interrelated theoretical concerns about O&R's notion of technical-reasoning capacities, and suggests how these concerns might be met.

Are Deficits in Social Cognition Linked to Autobiographical Memory in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease?

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes H. Scheidemann ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Marc Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Fluency Task

Abstract. We investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and its possible connection to autobiographical memory (ABM). Patients and matched controls were evaluated and compared using a video-based ToM test, an autobiographical fluency task, and a neuropsychological test battery. We found that ToM deficits were positively associated with semantic ABM in the clinical group, whereas a positive relationship appeared between ToM and episodic ABM in controls. We hypothesize that this reflects the course of the disease as well as that semantic ABM is used for ToM processing, being still accessible in AD. Furthermore, we assume that it is also less efficient, which in turn leads to a specific deficit profile of social cognition.

What Does It Take to Activate Stereotypes? Simple Primes Don’t Seem Enough

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Müller ◽  
Klaus Rothermund
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Response Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Stereotype Activation

According to social cognition textbooks, stereotypes are activated automatically if appropriate categorical cues are processed. Although many studies have tested effects of activated stereotypes on behavior, few have tested the process of stereotype activation. Blair and Banaji (1996) demonstrated that subjects were faster to categorize first names as male or female if those were preceded by gender congruent attribute primes. The same, albeit smaller, effects emerged in a semantic priming design ruling out response priming by Banaji and Hardin (1996) . We sought to replicate these important effects. Mirroring Blair and Banaji (1996) we found strong priming effects as long as response priming was possible. However, unlike Banaji and Hardin (1996) , we did not find any evidence for automatic stereotype activation, when response priming was ruled out. Our findings suggest that automatic stereotype activation is not a reliable and global phenomenon but is restricted to more specific conditions.

Putting the Social Back Into Social Cognition

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 522-523
Author(s):  
Bernard E. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
The Social
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