Gender and Facial Dominance in Gaze Cuing: Emotional Context Matters in the Eyes That We Follow

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ohlsen, Garian ^a   van Zoest, Wieske ^b   van Vugt, Mark ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; GENDER; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875754488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059471     Document Type: Article

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