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People, perhaps without consciously doing so, search other's eyes and faces for positive or negative mood signs. In some contexts, the meeting of eyes arouses strong emotions. Eye contact provides some of the strongest emotions during a social conversation. This primarily is because it provides details on emotions and intentions.
The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
The stare-in-the-crowd effect is the notion that an eyes-forward, direct gaze is more easily detected than an averted gaze. First discovered by psychologist and neurophysiologist Michael von Grünau and his psychology student Christina Marie Anston using human subjects in 1995, [1] the processing advantage associated with this effect is thought to derive from the importance of eye contact as a ...
In the book Berardi reflects on the new forms of alienation and addresses people's feelings of alienation in regards to work, as well as to how their refusal to submit to work used to be the foundation of a human community - that fought for autonomy against the work society. [3] Berardi cites a number of authors in the book.
The author interviewed on the premise of the book, June 2018. The productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to "bullshit jobs": "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the ...
Individuals with scopophobia generally exhibit symptoms in social situations when attention is brought upon them, such as in public speaking.Other triggers may also cause social anxiety, such as: being introduced to new people, being teased and/or criticized, or even answering a phone call in public.
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When the woman yelled, "Get away from me; I don't know you," bystanders intervened 65 percent of the time, but only 19 percent of the time when the woman yelled, "Get away from me; I don't know why I ever married you." [7] General bystander effect research was mainly conducted in the context of non-dangerous, non-violent emergencies.