Cultural differences in mutual gaze during face-to-face interactions: A dual head-mounted eye-tracking study

• Published in: Visual cognition Vol. 30; no. 1-2; pp. 100 - 115
• Main Authors: Haensel, Jennifer X., Smith, Tim J., Senju, Atsushi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 07.02.2022
• Subjects: culture; gaze avoidance; head-mounted eye-tracking; Mutual gaze; social interaction

Cross-cultural psychologists have widely discussed "gaze avoidance" as a sociocultural norm to describe reduced mutual gaze in East Asians (EAs) compared to Western Caucasians (WCs). Supportive evidence is primarily based on self-reports and video recordings of face-to-face interactions, b...