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The Sense of Being Stared At
- aragonite 2y agoThe original 1898 Titchener article: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1626360 https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1626360
- sva_ 2y agoI swear, from my personal experience, that this effect is real. Would love to hear a scientific explanation of it though.
- Terr_ 2y agoThe scientific explanation is that your brain is lying to you. :p They do that quite a lot, really.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoMaybe read the article? This phenomenon should have a high rate of anecdotal evidence induced by confirmation bias: You are in a group, a crowd, and suddenly the thought that you're being watched crosses your mind; you look around and, sure enough, that one person is staring at you, quickly averting their eyes like they're being caught in the act. The explanation being, of course, that that other person's attention got caught by your movement, and they don't want to 'be that guy' who stares at other people, so they quickly look elsewhere.
- unlisted7347 2y agoNot sure if I should stop staring at women in public.