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Attachment theory uses the Medusa Complex to refer to a self-destructive early state of inwardly directed aggression produced by a disruption of the mother/child mutual gaze. [5] Marion Woodman saw the Medusa Complex as a dissociated state produced by paralysis of the fight-or-flight response in a state of petrified fear. [6]
Gaze following, or shared gaze, can be found in a number of primates. [6]: 155–71 [34] Domesticated animals such as dogs and horses also demonstrate shared gaze. [37] [38] This type of joint attention is important for animals because gaze shifts serve as indicators alerting the animal to the location of predators, mates, or food. [6]
The actions of the partners can be matched, as when one partner imitates the other or when there is mutual smiling. When reciprocal socialization has been investigated in infancy, mutual gaze or eye contact has been found to play an important role in early social interaction. "In one investigation, the mother and infant engaged in a variety of ...
Male-gaze theory also proposes that the male gaze is a psychological "safety valve for homoerotic tensions" among heterosexual men; in genre cinema, the psychological projection of homosexual attraction is sublimated onto the women characters of the story, to distract the spectator of the film story from noticing that homoeroticism is innate to ...
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself.
People whose dogs had the most eye contact with them - a mutual gaze - registered the largest increases in oxytocin levels. The dogs also had an oxytocin spike correlating with that of their owner.
Charles Goodwin, (1980), "Restarts, Pauses, and the Achievement of a State of Mutual Gaze at Turn-Beginning", Sociological Inquiry, vol. 50, no. 3-4, pp. 272–302. Charles Goodwin, (1979), "The Interactive Construction of a Sentence in Natural Conversation", In Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology (George Psathas, ed.),
“That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger ― not to be interfered with by speech or action which ...