TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of attention
T2 - Gaze-cuing effects are moderated by political temperament
AU - Dodd, Michael D.
AU - Hibbing, John R.
AU - Smith, Kevin B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by Natural Sciences Foundation Grant BCS-0826828, John Hibbing, Principal Investigator. We would like to thank Alex Knezevic and Andrew Neal for their assistance in data collection. We would also like to thank Michael Wagner, Bradley Gibson and three anonymous reviewers for useful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Correspondence may be sent to Mike Dodd, The University of Nebraska –Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE, USA, 68588 (mdodd2@unl.edu).
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Gaze cues lead to reflexive shifts of attention even when those gaze cues do not predict target location. Although this general effect has been repeatedly demonstrated, not all individuals orient to gaze in an identical manner. For example, the magnitude of gaze-cuing effects have been reduced or eliminated in populations such as those scoring high on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and in males relative to females (since males exhibit more autismlike traits). In the present study, we examined whether gaze cue effects would be moderated by political temperament, given that those on the political right tend to be more supportive of individualism-and less likely to be influenced by others-than those on the left. We found standard gaze-cuing effects across all subjects but systematic differences in these effects by political temperament. Liberals exhibited a very large gaze-cuing effect, whereas conservatives showed no such effect at various stimulus onset asynchronies.
AB - Gaze cues lead to reflexive shifts of attention even when those gaze cues do not predict target location. Although this general effect has been repeatedly demonstrated, not all individuals orient to gaze in an identical manner. For example, the magnitude of gaze-cuing effects have been reduced or eliminated in populations such as those scoring high on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and in males relative to females (since males exhibit more autismlike traits). In the present study, we examined whether gaze cue effects would be moderated by political temperament, given that those on the political right tend to be more supportive of individualism-and less likely to be influenced by others-than those on the left. We found standard gaze-cuing effects across all subjects but systematic differences in these effects by political temperament. Liberals exhibited a very large gaze-cuing effect, whereas conservatives showed no such effect at various stimulus onset asynchronies.
KW - Gaze cues
KW - Political temperament
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U2 - 10.3758/s13414-010-0001-x
DO - 10.3758/s13414-010-0001-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 21258905
AN - SCOPUS:79951945405
VL - 73
SP - 24
EP - 29
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
SN - 1943-3921
IS - 1
ER -