Effects of direct and averted gaze on the perception of facially communicated emotion.

By R. B. Adams, R. Kleck. Emotion, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems

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How do eye gaze and facial expression interact? (2008, methodology): “Remarkably, however, a majority of participants initially gave the same ratings to both faces in a pair; the interaction with eye gaze was only obtained after the task was adjusted so that participants were forced to provide different ratings for both faces (Adams & Kleck, 2005, footnote 1).”
Looking at You or Looking Elsewhere: The Influence of Head Orientation on the Signal Value of Emotional Facial Expressions (2007, neutral): “Emotions such as embarrassment and sorrow, however, which indicate a greater tendency to withdraw, tend to be communicated more with averted gaze (see e.g., Argyle and Cook 1976; Fehr and Exline 1987).”
Not all emotions are created equal: the negativity bias in social-emotional development. (2008, background): “Experiencing or perceiving someone's fear certainly signals something very different about the world and about actions one should take than does experiencing or perceiving someone's anger or sadness (Adams & Kleck, 2005; Campos, 2003; Lazarus, 2003).”
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition. (2009, positive): “In another study by the same authors, anger and joy were also perceived as more intense in direct-gaze compared to averted-gaze faces while fear and sadness were perceived as more intense for averted-gaze faces (Adams and Kleck, 2005).”
Anger is an approach-related affect: evidence and implications. (2009, positive): “Other studies (R. B. Adams & Kleck, 2005) revealed that direct eye gaze from a face enhanced the perception of approach-oriented emotions (anger and joy), whereas averted eye gaze enhanced the perception of avoidance-oriented emotions (fear and sadness).”
Gaze Cueing of Attention (2007, background): “Adams and Kleck (2005) extended their initial findings by demonstrating the influence of gaze direction on the perception of other approach (joy and anger) and avoidance (sadness and fear) emotional expressions.”
Eye to eye, face to face and brain to brain: novel approaches to study the behavioral dynamics and neural mechanisms of social interactions (2015, neutral): “Direct gaze also speeds up the identification of faces and facial expressions [21]), has a positive effect on our judgment of the attractiveness and likeability of others [22] and the likeability of objects associated with them”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “Although compassion includes gazing and leaning toward others (Eisenberg, Fabes, et al., 1988; Eisenberg, McCreath, & Ahn, 1988; Guthrie et al., 1997), sadness involves physical withdrawal (Shaver et al., 1987), averted gaze (Adams & Kleck, 2005), and slumped posture (Coulson, 2004).”
Presentation and validation of the Radboud Faces Database (2010, background): “For example, it has been found that gaze direction affects the perception of emotions (Adams & Kleck, 2005), and that attractive faces enhance evaluations of associated products when their gaze is directed towards the participant but not when it is averted (Strick, Holland, & van Knippenberg, 2008).”