Our Eyes Reveal Our Thoughts
We’ve reported before on how important eyes can be. It turns out that the way we use our eyes can give people in the know information about what we?re are thinking, whether we?re paying attention, and whether or not we are telling a lie.
Ker Than reports in LiveScience.com that biologists study this by observing primates. Michael Tomasello, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied the reactions to certain head and eye movements made by a human researcher in a group of great apes, consisting of 11 chimpanzees, four gorillas and four bonobos, as compared to a group of 40 human infants (and no, they did not react the same way).
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