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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.
A 1913 study by John E. Coover asked ten subjects to state whether or not they could sense an experimenter looking at them, over a period of 100 possible staring periods. . The subjects' answers were correct 50.2% of the time, a result that Coover called an "astonishing approximation" of pure chance.
Cut-eye is a visual gesture using one's eyes and face to communicate displeasure or disapproval, and in some cases hostility. The gesture is usually performed by looking at someone out of the corners of one's eyes, then turning the eyes away quickly down towards the foot opposite the eye of the person the gesture is being performed at.
The phrase was popularized after Life magazine published the painting Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare by World War II artist and correspondent Tom Lea, [4] although the painting was not referred to with that title in the 1945 magazine article.
The woman didn’t glare. She smiled. Then she told me how beautiful my daughter and I looked sitting there together, paired with the classical music piping through her headphones.
A glare may be induced by anger or frustration. Visually, a glaring person tends to have their eyes fixed and heavily focused on a subject. This can sometimes be considered synonymous to staring but, in most of the cases, staring is caused due to curiosity and lasts only for a short duration, whereas glaring is caused due to contempt and lasts ...
Staring can be interpreted as being either hostile, or the result of intense concentration; above, two men stare at each other during a political argument.. Children have to be socialised into learning acceptable staring behaviour.
A 1985 study suggested that "3-month-old infants are comparatively insensitive to being the object of another's visual regard". [6] A 1996 Canadian study with 3- to 6-month-old infants found that smiling in infants decreased when adult eye contact was removed. [7]