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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 514-520Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01737.x
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- Wellcome Trust [071924] Funding Source: Medline
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Although following another person's gaze is essential in fluent social interactions, the reflexive nature of this gaze-cuing effect means that gaze can be used to deceive. In a gaze-cuing procedure, participants were presented with several faces that looked to the left or right. Some faces always looked to the target (predictive-valid), some never looked to the target (predictive-invalid), and others looked toward and away from the target in equal proportions (nonpredictive). The standard gaze-cuing effects appeared to be unaffected by these contingencies. Nevertheless, participants tended to choose the predictive-valid faces as appearing more trustworthy than the predictive-invalid faces. This effect was negatively related to scores on a scale assessing autistic-like traits. Further, we present tentative evidence that the deceptive faces were encoded more strongly in memory than the cooperative faces. These data demonstrate the important interactions among attention, gaze perception, facial identity recognition, and personality judgments.
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