Outputs (3)

Staring at the back of someone's head is no signal, and a sense of being stared at is no sense (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A. (2005). Staring at the back of someone's head is no signal, and a sense of being stared at is no sense. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12(6), 50-56

The first of Sheldrake’s twin articles in this edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies presents the case for the existence of a ‘sense of being stared at’, which is purported to be a capacity to discriminate at above chance levels between bei... Read More about Staring at the back of someone's head is no signal, and a sense of being stared at is no sense.

Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes (2005)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A., & Adolphs, A. (2005). Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes. In L. Barrett, P. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (Eds.) (Eds.), Emotion and consciousness (pp. 150-182). Guilford Press

From the Introduction: Perceiving and interpreting other people’s emotional states is essential for effective social interaction. Its very importance is likely to have resulted in the evolution of complex mechanisms that underlie it. A basic capacity... Read More about Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes.

Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., Tipples, J., Burt, D., & Young, A. (2005). Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception. Perception & psychophysics, 67(7), 1199-1213. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03193553

Previous research with speeded-response interference tasks modeled on the Garner paradigm has demonstrated that task-irrelevant variations in either emotional expression or facial speech do not interfere with identity judgments, but irrelevant variat... Read More about Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception.