Social status gates social attention in humans
Social status gates social attention in humans
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DOI：
10.1098/rsbl.2011.0881
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发表时间：
2012-06-23
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影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Galfano, Giovanni
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作者：
Dalmaso, Mario;Pavan, Giulia;Galfano, Giovanni
人类倾向于转移注意力以回应他们所注视的面孔的转移目光，这种现象被称为凝视暗示。在本文中，我们的目的是解决提示脸的社会地位是否调节这种现象。参与者被要求观察 16 个人的面孔，并阅读与每个人相关的虚构简历，这些简历可以描述该人的社会地位高低。每个特定面孔与高或低社会地位之间的关联在参与者之间得到平衡。然后，在凝视提示任务中使用相同的面孔作为刺激。结果显示，地位高的面孔比地位低的面孔具有更大的凝视暗示效果，与面孔的具体身份无关。这些发现证实了先前关于社会因素在塑造社会注意力方面的重要作用的证据，并表明即使通过情景学习获得有关社会地位的知识，也可以观察到凝视暗示的调节。
Humans tend to shift attention in response to the averted gaze of a face they are fixating, a phenomenon known as gaze cuing. In the present paper, we aimed to address whether the social status of the cuing face modulates this phenomenon. Participants were asked to look at the faces of 16 individuals and read fictive curriculum vitae associated with each of them that could describe the person as having a high or low social status. The association between each specific face and either high or low social status was counterbalanced between participants. The same faces were then used as stimuli in a gaze-cuing task. The results showed a greater gaze-cuing effect for high-status faces than for low-status faces, independently of the specific identity of the face. These findings confirm previous evidence regarding the important role of social factors in shaping social attention and show that a modulation of gaze cuing can be observed even when knowledge about social status is acquired through episodic learning.