Abstract
Past studies examining how people judge faces for trustworthiness and dominance have suggested that they use particular facial features (e.g. mouth features for trustworthiness, eyebrow and cheek features for dominance ratings) to complete the task. Here, we examine whether eye movements during the task reflect the importance of these features. We here compared eye movements for trustworthiness and dominance ratings of face images under three stimulus configurations: Small images (mimicking large viewing distances), large images (mimicking face to face viewing), and a moving window condition (removing extrafoveal information). Whereas first area fixated, dwell times, and number of fixations depended on the size of the stimuli and the availability of extrafoveal vision, and varied substantially across participants, no clear task differences were found. These results indicate that gaze patterns for face stimuli are highly individual, do not vary between trustworthiness and dominance ratings, but are influenced by the size of the stimuli and the availability of extrafoveal vision.
DOI
10.7717/peerj.5702
Publication Date
2018-10-11
Publication Title
PeerJ
Volume
6
Publisher
PeerJ
ISSN
2167-8359
Embargo Period
2024-11-22
First Page
e5702
Last Page
e5702
Recommended Citation
Hermens, F., Golubickis, M., & Macrae, C. (2018) 'Eye movements while judging faces for trustworthiness and dominance', PeerJ, 6, pp. e5702-e5702. PeerJ: Available at: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5702
