Not afraid to trust you: Trustworthiness moderates gaze cueing but not in highly anxious participants
Year: 2016
Type: preprint
Abstract: Gaze Cueing (i.e.,the shifting of person B’s attention by following person A’s gaze) is closely linked with human interaction and learning. To make the most of this connection, researchers need to investigate possible moderators enhancing or reducing the extent of this attentional shifting. In this study we used a gaze cueing paradigm to demonstrate that the perceived trustworthiness of a cueing person constitutes such a moderator for female participants. Our results show a significant interaction between perceived trustworthiness and the response time trade-off between valid and invalid gaze cues (gaze cueing effect), as manifested in greater following of a person’s gaze if this person was trustworthy as opposed to the following of an untrustworthy person’s gaze. An additional exploratory analysis showed potentially moderating influences of trait-anxiety on this interaction (p= .057). The affective background of the experiment (i.e., using positive or negative target stimuli) had no influence.
Source: OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Authors: Felix Suessenbach, Felix D. Schönbrodt
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4409656459