How to become a mentalist: reading decisions from a competitor's pupil can be achieved without training but requires instruction.

Pupil dilation is implicated as a marker of decision-making as well as of cognitive and emotional processes. Here we tested whether individuals can exploit another's pupil to their advantage. We first recorded the eyes of 3 "opponents", while they were playing a modified version of th...

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Main Authors: Marnix Naber, Josef Stoll, Wolfgang Einhäuser, Olivia Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3753247?pdf=render