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SUBMITTER: Binetti N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4968459 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Binetti Nicola N Harrison Charlotte C Coutrot Antoine A Johnston Alan A Mareschal Isabelle I
Royal Society open science 20160706 7
Most animals look at each other to signal threat or interest. In humans, this social interaction is usually punctuated with brief periods of mutual eye contact. Deviations from this pattern of gazing behaviour generally make us feel uncomfortable and are a defining characteristic of clinical conditions such as autism or schizophrenia, yet it is unclear what constitutes normal eye contact. Here, we measured, across a wide range of ages, cultures and personality types, the period of direct gaze th ...[more]