Förhållandet mellan ögonkontakt och uppmärksamhet

Sammanfattning: Humans are social animals. We wish to establish social contact with each other, and one fundamental way of doing this is through gaze. But how long do we need to look at someone to establish purpose? This is what we aim to investigate in this paper. The experiment conducted investigated how duration and direction of gaze affected a person’s reaction time when a target was presented peripherally. Faces with eyes looking right, left, straight and having closed eyes were presented and the respondents were instructed to press a key whenever they detected the target. Results showed that there was a significant result for both eye direction and duration. There were also tendencies towards people being faster when they felt that they were being looked at.