Don't look at me like that!
It's a phenomenon that most of us have undoubtedly all encountered. Someone turns to face you while you're in the midst of a bustling crowd of people. You pick it up right away. In actuality, processing and registering this eye contact takes no longer than a nanosecond. What transpires during eye contact psychologically speaking? This is what Anne Böckler-Raettig, a professor at the University of Würzburg's Department of Psychology III, is interested in (JMU). She has led the research team "More than meets the eye: Integration, influences, and impairments of direct gaze processing" since 2017 and has a particular interest in social cognition. Böckler-Raettig has now deciphered new data regarding how humans process gazes and facial expressions along with her colleagues and experts from the USA and Canada. The Journal of Experimental Psychology is where she publishes the findings of her research. Dr. Christina Breil, the study's first author, says, "We were...