Journal Article10.1016/J.COGNITION.2018.02.010
Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues.
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TL;DR: A robust inward bias in aesthetic judgment is demonstrated driven by a cue that is socially powerful but visually subtle: averted gaze, when those features signal how future events may unfold.
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About: This article is published in Cognition. The article was published on 01 Jul 2018. The article focuses on the topics: Gaze.
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