Week 11 - Social attention

Question 1

What is the gaze-cueing effect

Answer 1

The gaze cueing effect is a psychological phenomenon that describes how people respond faster to targets that are being looked at by others
- Gaze cueing is ‘rapid’ and ‘reflexive’, many suggest automatic.
- sensitive to high level social modulations

Question 2

Who is our attention cued by?

Answer 2

• Our attention is cued more by people we ‘know’ are not nice!
• But our attention is cued more by those that we consider to have a ‘higher’ status

Question 3

What is gaze-leading?

Answer 3

the tendency to automatically focus on people who are looking in our direction

• Gaze leading experiments corrleated with sub-clinical self reported autism like traits.