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Social Structure Predicts Eye Contact Tolerance in Nonhuman Primates: Evidence from a Crowd-Sourcing Approach
2019-06-04
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<p>In most primates, eye contact is an implicit signal of threat, and often signals social status and imminent physical aggression. However, in humans and the more gregarious species of nonhuman primates, eye contact is more tolerated and used to communicate emotional and mental states. What accounts for the variation in this critical social behavior across primate species? We crowd-sourced primatologists and foun...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 998f51e2-9521-501c-b843-ddf5ed066d2c
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/8pdju
