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- Our preferences are shaped by social influences, particularly through the way others look at objects, which enhances our liking for those objects.
- The study tested whether this liking effect applies to both manipulable items (like tools) and non-manipulable ones (like letters or numbers), finding that even non-manipulable items showed a significant increase in liking.
- In a comparison with pointing hands as a social cue, while pointing hands successfully directed attention, they did not produce a similar effect on liking, highlighting the unique role of eye gaze in social interaction.
Article Abstract
Our preferences are sensitive to social influences. For instance, we like more the objects that are looked-at by others than non-looked-at objects. Here, we explored this liking effect, using a modified paradigm of attention cueing by gaze. First, we investigated if the liking effect induced by gaze relied on motoric representations of the target object by testing if the liking effect could be observed for non-manipulable (alphanumeric characters) as well as for manipulable items (common tools). We found a significant liking effect for the alphanumeric items. Second, we tested if another type of powerful social cue could also induce a liking effect. We used an equivalent paradigm but with pointing hands instead of gaze cues. Pointing hands elicited a robust attention-orienting effect, but they did not induce any significant liking effect. This study extends previous findings and reinforces the view of eye gaze as a special cue in human interactions.
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