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Author(s): Miranda Drake
Presentation: poster
Shy individuals are commonly thought to avoid direct eye contact. However, two recent studies have shown that this may not be the case. They found that shy individuals may actually make more direct eye contact than non-shy individuals. This may be due to shy individuals having higher levels of social anxiety. However, a major weakness of these recent studies is that they did not test shy people in a realistic social setting. Instead, people had to interact with static faces. In our study, we will attempt to replicate the original data and, in addition, measure the amount of direct eye-contact of shy individuals while interacting socially with people over the internet through visual media.
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