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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 1061-1066Publisher
PSYCHONOMIC SOC INC
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213926
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- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0429] Funding Source: researchfish
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When we see another person look somewhere, we automatically attend to the same location in space. This joint attention emerges early in life and has a great impact on social interactions in development and in everyday adult life. The direction of another's gaze indicates what object is of current interest, which may be the target for a subsequent action. In this study, we found that objects that are looked at by other people are liked more than objects that do not receive the attention of other people (Experiment 1). This suggests that observing averted gaze can have an impact on the affective appraisals of objects in the environment. This liking effect was absent when an arrow was used to cue attention (Experiment 2). This underlines the importance of other people's interactions with objects for generating our own impressions of such stimuli in the world.
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