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Perhaps I'm missing something, but the title seems to exaggerate the following paragraph: > Perhaps more importantly for people with autism, Davidenko found th
by vages 8y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the title seems to exaggerate the following paragraph:
> Perhaps more importantly for people with autism, Davidenko found that the tilt leads people to look more at the eyes, perhaps because it makes them more approachable and less threatening. "Across species, direct eye contact can be threatening," he said. "When the head is tilted, we look at the upper eye more than either or both eyes when the head is upright. I think this finding could be used therapeutically."
Hope it's correct. Would be interesting to know if the effect persists when the viewer tilts their head, not just the viewed.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago> Would be interesting to know if the effect persists when the viewer tilts their head, not just the viewed. I just had to think of the equivalent of two people trying to make way for each other on the street, and stepping to each side at the same time. Two people wanting to put each other at ease in the same instant, both wiggling their heads from one side to the other for a bit, then laughing politely and settling on tilting their heads to different sides from one another.