The duality of gaze: Eyes extract and signal social information during sustained cooperative and competitive dyadic gaze

In contrast to nonhuman primate eyes, which have a dark sclera surrounding a dark iris, human eyes have a white sclera that surrounds a dark iris. This high contrast morphology allows humans to determine quickly and easily where others are looking and infer what they are attending to. In recent ye...

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Main Authors: Michelle eJarick, Alan eKingstone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01423/full