Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1681, 2010, Pages 617-624

  Jones, Benedict C ^a   Debruine, Lisa M ^a   Main, Julie C ^a   Little, Anthony C ^b   Welling, Lisa L M ^a   Feinberg, David R ^c   Tiddeman, Bernard R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominance; Gaze; Gaze following; Joint attention

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PRIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VISUAL CUE;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 76249124757     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1575     Document Type: Article

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