What boosts attention orienting in response to other people’s gaze direction?
(2014) Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) — Location: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (27.May.2014)
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- Every day we pay attention to where people are looking to understand their mental states. In the context of a visual perspective-taking paradigm, it has been shown that we automatically compute someone else’s line of sight. In the context of attentional orienting paradigms, it has been shown that our attention is automatically drawn to where someone else is gazing at. Both phenomena probably rely on common underlying mechanisms but one notable difference in the empirical evidence reported by these two strands of research is that the sensitivity to what someone else is looking at is much more robust in the context of the visual perspective-taking paradigm than in the context of the gaze cueing paradigm. The current study examines the origin of the discrepancy across these two paradigms. The results show that the higher robustness of our sensitivity to someone else’s gaze in the visual perspective-taking paradigm is not due to a difference in visual salience (Experiment 1) or task complexity (Experiment 2) but that it was caused by how attention is deployed in response to task instructions (Experiment 3). The results are discussed in relation to the role of attentional mechanisms in social perception.
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Bukowski, H., Hietanen, J. K., & Samson, D. (2014). What boosts attention orienting in response to other people’s gaze direction? Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/232582