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White Eyes


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    Leanne Ogata

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Sources Discussed in Video
  • Haley, K.J., & Fessler,D.M.T. (2005). Nobody's watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 26, 245-256.
  • Tomasello, M., Hare, B., Lehmann,H., & Call, J. (2007). Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: The cooperative eye hypothesis. Journal of Human Evolution, 52, 314-320.

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  • Senju, A., Yaguchi, K., Tojo, Y., & Hasegawa, T. (2003). Eye contact does not facilitate detection in children with autism. Cognition, 89, B43-B51.
    • This is an article suggesting that children with autism have difficulties responding to the gaze direction of others.
  • This news article from msnbc discusses the cooperative eye hypothesis and the idea of our eyes promoting altruism.
  • Here's a link to the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, where Michael Tomasello is a co-director. He is one of the proponents of the cooperative eye hypothesis.
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