What we observe is biased by what other people tell us: Beliefs about the reliability of gaze behavior modulate attentional orienting to gaze cues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wiese, Eva ^a,b   Wykowska, Agnieszka ^a,c   Müller, Hermann J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE BIAS; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; CULTURE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY;

EID: 84899542784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094529     Document Type: Article

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