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Analyzing and studying social interactions may be perceived as a low status activity because it may imply that one cannot get by without it due to some flaw (so one needs to "try hard"). | Analyzing and studying social interactions may be perceived as a low status activity because it may imply that one cannot get by without it due to some flaw (so one needs to "try hard"). | ||
=== Eye contact === | === Eye contact and attention === | ||
Another simple dominance | Another simple aspect of dominance signaling is gaze and attention. One study found that people pay more attention to photos of men with high status cues (attire in this case).Interestingly, neither men or women pay more attention to women with such 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> | ||
This can be measured by the | More dominant individuals are more attended to and they more likely ignore others. | ||
This is particularly noticeable during speaking and here more dominant women get more attention too. | |||
More dominant people tend to look away more 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. People ignore low status individuals if they are not picking at them. | |||
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). | |||
Dividing the two terms cancels out differences in individual propensity for holding eye contact and combines both in one number. | Dividing the two terms cancels out differences in individual propensity for holding eye contact and combines both in one number. | ||
Being more dominant, increases the denominator and decreases the nominator, hence increases the ratio. | Being more dominant, increases the denominator and decreases the nominator, hence increases the ratio. | ||