Follow my eyes: The gaze of politicians reflexively captures the gaze of ingroup voters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Liuzza, Marco Tullio ^a,b   Cazzato, Valentina ^a,b   Vecchione, Michele ^a   Crostella, Filippo ^a   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PUBLIC FIGURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LEADERSHIP; PERCEPTION; REFLEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

PRIMATES;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; REFLEX; SACCADES;

EID: 80053057132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025117     Document Type: Article

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