Rapid detection of social interactions is the result of domain general attentional processes.

ABSTRACT: Using visual search displays of interacting and non-interacting pairs, it has been demonstrated that detection of social interactions is facilitated. For example, two people facing each other are found faster than two people with their backs turned: an effect that may reflect social binding. However, recent work has shown the same effects with non-social arrow stimuli, where towards facing arrows are detected faster than away facing arrows. This latter work suggests a primary mechanism is an attention orienting process driven by basic low-level direction cues. However, evidence for lower level attentional processes does not preclude a potential additional role of higher-level social processes. Therefore, in this series of experiments we test this idea further by directly comparing basic vi

SUBMITTER: Flavell JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759659 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature