Idiosyncratic viewing patterns of social scenes reflect individual preferences.

ABSTRACT: In general, humans preferentially look at conspecifics in naturalistic images. However, such group-based effects might conceal systematic individual differences concerning the preference for social information. Here, we investigated to what degree fixations on social features occur consistently within observers and whether this preference generalizes to other measures of social prioritization in the laboratory as well as the real world. Participants carried out a free viewing task, a relevance taps task that required them to actively select image regions that are crucial for understanding a given scene, and they were asked to freely take photographs outside the laboratory that were later classified regarding their social content. We observed stable individual differences in the fixation an

SUBMITTER: Berlijn AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9807181 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature