Gaze cues (repeatedly) fail to influence person evaluation.
Eye gaze is an important social signal that people generally cannot help but follow, leading to joint attention. Joint attention has been shown to speed basic processing of objects, enhance memory for them, and even affect immediate value-based appraisal by increasing object likability. Here, across...
| Published in: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 124 - 145 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan2026
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