The ability to form a Theory of Mind (ToM), ie, to theorize about others' mental states to explain and predict behavior in relation to attributed intentional states, constitutes a hallmark …
KR Caspar, M Biggemann, T Geissmann, S Begall - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Pigmentation patterns of the visible part of the eyeball, encompassing the iris and portions of the sclera, have been discussed to be linked to social cognition in primates. The cooperative …
The drivers of divergent scleral morphologies in primates are currently unclear, though white sclerae are often assumed to underlie human hyper-cooperative behaviours. Humans are …
Gaze following has been argued to be uniquely human, facilitated by our depigmented, white sclera [M. Tomasello, B. Hare, H. Lehmann, J. Call, J. Hum. Evol. 52, 314–320 (2007)] …
The study of primate gaze interactions (gaze following and gaze aversion, as examples) is commonly used to examine, through experimentation and/or observation, the evolution of …
K Hall, SF Brosnan - Infant Behavior and Development, 2017 - Elsevier
Though competition and cooperation are often considered opposing forces in an arms race driving natural selection, many animals, including humans, cooperate in order to mitigate …
Homogeneously depigmented sclerae have long been proposed to be uniquely human—an adaptation to enable cooperative behaviour by facilitating interpersonal coordination …
Mutual eye gaze plays an important role in primate social development and communication. In the current study, we examined the underlying experiential, genetic, and neuroanatomical …
The horizontal size of the exposed depigmented sclera in Caucasians has been previously suggested to be sexually dimorphic, and the significance of this phenomenon remains …