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Believing in the power of gaze
The power of gaze appears in stories and myths throughout the centuries.
- Medusa turned people to stone with her gaze.
- The catoblepas and the basilisk, both described by Pliny the Elder, could kill with the single glance.
- In Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, Venus complains of the pain caused by Adonis’ glance.
- As a cultural reference, we can also mention the Jedi master or Superman.
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Gaze is a powerful element of social interaction
- It reveals where a person is focusing their attention, and, when directed at us, it can have a strong emotional effect.
- Gaze can play a role in social organization, with a direct gaze demonstrating social dominance and gaze aversion indicating passivity.
- Eye contact can ...
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Gazing is an essential form of communication
It can synchronize activities and convey social dynamics without a gesture or spoken word.
It requires a quick interpretation and explanation of the meaning behind another person's gaze, but the trade-off for the speed of that interpretation is the mistaken understanding of gaze as somethi...
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The “extramission” theory of vision
Extramission means “sending out,” and the extramission theory is the belief that vision is a force emitted from the eye. It is an intuitive understanding of vision common among children that persists among many adults.
In contrast, the modern visual theory is called “intromission...
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How we interpret gaze
- We give gaze physical properties.
- We create implicit mental programmes in which the visual attention of others is understood as a forceful beam emitted from the viewer’s eye and directed at the object of interest.
- These mental programmes allow us to use cognitive shortcuts...
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