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Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention
Recent studies have found that participants consistently look less at social stimuli in live situations than expected from conventional laboratory experiments, raising questions as to the cause for this discrepancy and concerns about the validity of typical studies. We tested the possibility that it...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23912766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02356 |
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author | -L. Wu, David W. Bischof, Walter F. Kingstone, Alan |
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description | Recent studies have found that participants consistently look less at social stimuli in live situations than expected from conventional laboratory experiments, raising questions as to the cause for this discrepancy and concerns about the validity of typical studies. We tested the possibility that it is the consequences of a potential social interaction that dictates one's looking behaviour. By placing participants in a situation where the social consequences of interacting are congruent with social norms (sharing a meal), we find an increased preference for participants to look at each other. Dyads who were particularly interactive also looked more at the other person than dyads who did not interact. Recent landmark studies have shown that in real world settings people avoid looking at strangers, but we show that in a situation with a different social context the opposite holds true. |
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spelling | pubmed-37330522013-08-05 Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention -L. Wu, David W. Bischof, Walter F. Kingstone, Alan Sci Rep Article Recent studies have found that participants consistently look less at social stimuli in live situations than expected from conventional laboratory experiments, raising questions as to the cause for this discrepancy and concerns about the validity of typical studies. We tested the possibility that it is the consequences of a potential social interaction that dictates one's looking behaviour. By placing participants in a situation where the social consequences of interacting are congruent with social norms (sharing a meal), we find an increased preference for participants to look at each other. Dyads who were particularly interactive also looked more at the other person than dyads who did not interact. Recent landmark studies have shown that in real world settings people avoid looking at strangers, but we show that in a situation with a different social context the opposite holds true. Nature Publishing Group 2013-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3733052/ /pubmed/23912766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02356 Text en Copyright © 2013, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article -L. Wu, David W. Bischof, Walter F. Kingstone, Alan Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title | Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title_full | Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title_fullStr | Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title_full_unstemmed | Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title_short | Looking while eating: The importance of social context to social attention |
title_sort | looking while eating: the importance of social context to social attention |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23912766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02356 |
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