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  2. Scopophobia - Wikipedia

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    Spotligectophobia, scopophobia, scoptophobia, or ophthalmophobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by an excessive fear of being stared at in public or stared at by others. [1] Similar phobias include erythrophobia, the fear of blushing. Scopophobia is also commonly associated with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Often ...

  3. Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Why do so many of us hate how we look in photos? - AOL

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    It’s an all-too-familiar scenario. You’ve spent ages getting ready for a night out or special occasion, and you reckon you look just about OK.Maybe even better than that. At least, it looks ...

  5. Eye contact - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Why we're still talking about JonBenét Ramsey's murder 28 ...

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    "People like to stare into the abyss of evil to make them feel better about their own lives." People also like a good story. And the unsolved murder of a 6-year-old pageant queen has all the ...

  7. Dog Expert Explains Exactly Why Pups Stare at Their Humans - AOL

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    More Reasons Dogs Stare at Humans I thought that Steve's caption was also interesting. "They learn quickly how a human moves, what their energy is, and what behaviors are associated with it.

  8. Staring - Wikipedia

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    The sketches are set during the World Stare-out Championship Finals, a staring match which is described as a global event broadcast all over the world. In season two, episode four of the Cartoon Network animated sitcom Regular Show , the main villain, "Peeps" (who is a large floating eyeball), is defeated by losing a staring contest.

  9. Stare-in-the-crowd effect - Wikipedia

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    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 ...