Tom Foulsham

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Dominance and Prestige are distinct yet viable strategies for ascending the social hierarchy, consistent with evolutionary theory.

TL;DR: This study investigated whether people distribute their gaze in the same way when they are immersed and moving in the world compared to when they view video clips taken from the perspective of a walker, and where and when attention-grabbing items were selected.

TL;DR: The present data suggest that saliency cannot account for scanpaths and that incorporating these sequences could improve model predictions, and similarity between scan paths made at multiple viewings of the same stimulus suggests that repetitive scan paths also contribute to where people look.

TL;DR: Models of low-level saliency predict that when the authors first look at a photograph their first few eye movements should be made towards visually conspicuous objects, and two experiments investigated this prediction by recording eye fixations while viewers inspected pictures of room interiors that contained objects with known saliency characteristics.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent research in social attention that has involved stimuli ranging from simple schematic faces to real social interactions, and argues that exploring similarities and differences across these different types of social stimuli will provide new insights into social cognition and social neuroscience.