Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Sci Rep. 2013;3:2356. doi: 10.1038/srep02356.
Recent studies have found that participants consistently look less at social stimuli in live situations than expected from conventional laboratory experiments, raising questions as to the cause for this discrepancy and concerns about the validity of typical studies. We tested the possibility that it is the consequences of a potential social interaction that dictates one's looking behaviour. By placing participants in a situation where the social consequences of interacting are congruent with social norms (sharing a meal), we find an increased preference for participants to look at each other. Dyads who were particularly interactive also looked more at the other person than dyads who did not interact. Recent landmark studies have shown that in real world settings people avoid looking at strangers, but we show that in a situation with a different social context the opposite holds true.
最近的研究发现，参与者在现场情况下观察社会刺激的次数比传统实验室实验预期的要少，这引发了对这种差异的原因的质疑，并对典型研究的有效性提出了担忧。我们测试了这样一种可能性，即潜在社会互动的后果决定了一个人的注视行为。通过让参与者处于一种互动的社会后果与社会规范一致的情境中（共进餐），我们发现参与者彼此之间的注视偏好增加了。特别互动的二人组比不互动的二人组更多地看着对方。最近的里程碑式研究表明，在现实世界的环境中，人们会避免看陌生人，但我们发现，在具有不同社会背景的情况下，情况恰恰相反。
