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SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4360112 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20150201 2
Humans shift their attention to follow another person's gaze direction, a phenomenon called gaze cueing. This study examined whether a particular social factor, intergroup threat, modulates gaze cueing. As expected, stronger responses of a particular in-group to a threatening out-group were observed when the in-group, conditioned to perceive threat from one of two out-groups, was presented with facial stimuli from the threatening and non-threatening out-groups. These results suggest that intergr ...[more]