Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations
People typically follow conversations closely with their gaze. We asked whether this viewing is influenced by what is actually said in the conversation and by the viewer’s psychological condition. We recorded the eye movements of healthy (N = 16) and depressed (N = 25) participants while they were v...
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| description | People typically follow conversations closely with their gaze. We asked whether this viewing is influenced by what is actually said in the conversation and by the viewer’s psychological condition. We recorded the eye movements of healthy (N = 16) and depressed (N = 25) participants while they were viewing video clips. Each video showed two people, each speaking one line of dialogue about socio-emotionally important (i.e., personal) or unimportant topics (matter-of-fact). Between the spoken lines, the viewers made more saccadic shifts between the discussants, and looked more at the second speaker, in personal vs. matter-of-fact conversations. Higher depression scores were correlated with less looking at the currently speaking discussant. We conclude that subtle social attention dynamics can be detected from eye movements and that these dynamics are sensitive to the observer’s psychological condition, such as depression. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3f47397574be475ab5fdf7a51616febb2025-08-20T01:51:07ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922016-11-019710.16910/jemr.9.7.5Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversationsJarkko Hautala0Otto LobergJari K HietanenLauri NummenmaaPiia AstikainenUniversity of JyväskyläPeople typically follow conversations closely with their gaze. We asked whether this viewing is influenced by what is actually said in the conversation and by the viewer’s psychological condition. We recorded the eye movements of healthy (N = 16) and depressed (N = 25) participants while they were viewing video clips. Each video showed two people, each speaking one line of dialogue about socio-emotionally important (i.e., personal) or unimportant topics (matter-of-fact). Between the spoken lines, the viewers made more saccadic shifts between the discussants, and looked more at the second speaker, in personal vs. matter-of-fact conversations. Higher depression scores were correlated with less looking at the currently speaking discussant. We conclude that subtle social attention dynamics can be detected from eye movements and that these dynamics are sensitive to the observer’s psychological condition, such as depression.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2921eye movementsocial influencesattentionindividual differencessocial attentiondepression |
| spellingShingle | Jarkko Hautala Otto Loberg Jari K Hietanen Lauri Nummenmaa Piia Astikainen Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations Journal of Eye Movement Research eye movement social influences attention individual differences social attention depression |
| title | Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| title_full | Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| title_fullStr | Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| title_short | Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| title_sort | effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations |
| topic | eye movement social influences attention individual differences social attention depression |
| url | https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2921 |
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