Predictive gaze cues and personality judgments: Should eye trust you?

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Bayliss, Andrew P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Tipper, Steven P. (2006) Predictive gaze cues and personality judgments: Should eye trust you? Psychological Science, 17 (6). pp. 514-520. ISSN 1467-9280

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2015 14:02
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2023 01:25
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54774
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01737.x

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