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I'm wondering if the same effect applies to humans. For example adding pictures of staring managers/bosses in offices, painting faces/eyes reduce certain behavi

• closeparen 6y ago
  Authoritarian regimes seem to be into portraits of the glorious leader "watching" everywhere.
• skummetmaelk 6y ago
  Posters of eyes in cafeterias make it more likely for people to clean up after themselves https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513810001224 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10905...
• notJim 6y ago
  It does, the article mentions that painted eyes can deter bicycle theft, for example. There are more examples in the article.
• londons_explore 6y ago
  A shop in England, 'poundland', which is quite a target for low value casual thieves, has a lifesize mural of a policeman in uniform at each store. Don't know if it works, but they must at least think it does.
• emmelaich 6y ago
  Not exactly the same but that's a symbol in The Great Gatsby. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard.