Article Dans Une Revue Cognition Année : 2014

Eye contact elicits bodily self-awareness in human adults. Cognition. 133(1):120-127. 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.009

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Eye contact is a typical human behaviour known to impact concurrent or subsequent cognitive processing. In particular, it has been suggested that eye contact induces self-awareness, though this has never been formally proven. Here, we show that the perception of a face with a direct gaze (that establishes eye contact), as compared to either a face with averted gaze or a mere fixation cross, led adult participants to rate more accurately the intensity of their physiological reactions induced by emotional pictures. Our data support the view that bodily self-awareness becomes more acute when one is subjected to another's gaze. Importantly, this effect was not related to a particular arousal state induced by eye contact perception. Rejecting the arousal hypothesis, we suggest that eye contact elicits a self-awareness process by enhancing self-focused attention in humans. We further discuss the implications of this proposal.

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hal-01575829 , version 1 (21-08-2017)

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Matias Baltazar, Nesrine Hazem, Emma Vilarem, Virginie Beaucousin, Jean Luc Picq, et al.. Eye contact elicits bodily self-awareness in human adults. Cognition. 133(1):120-127. 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.009. Cognition, 2014, 133, pp.120-127. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.009⟩. ⟨hal-01575829⟩
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