Social status gates social attention in humans

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 450-452

  Dalmaso, Mario ^a   Pavan, Giulia ^a   Castelli, Luigi ^a   Galfano, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Gaze cuing; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; KNOWLEDGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84861499924     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0881     Document Type: Article

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