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Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. One study found that people pay more attention to men with high status cues. Interestingly, neither men or women pay more attention to women with high status cues.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. One study found that people pay more attention to men with high status cues. Interestingly, neither men or women pay more attention to women with high status cues.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | ||
The attention paid to more dominant individuals is particularly noticeable during speaking and here women with higher authority get more attention too. | The attention paid to more dominant individuals is particularly noticeable during speaking and here women with higher authority get more attention too. | ||
More dominant people | More dominant people more often look away when someone is speaking, perhaps because they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking, which is related to the effect in the previous study about the high status cues. | ||
Conversely, more dominant people also keep eye contact when speaking, perhaps because they do not fear being judged as overconfident hence do not need to divert attention by looking away. | |||
This can be measured by the Visual Dominance Ratio defined as VDR = (% eye contact while speaking) / (% eye contact while listening). | This can be measured by the Visual Dominance Ratio defined as VDR = (% eye contact while speaking) / (% eye contact while listening). | ||