Ma, Helen L.
Redden, Ralph S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8116-8806
Hayward, Dana A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-8750
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Article History
Accepted: 6 March 2024
First Online: 9 May 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
: As per the guidance of Simmons et al. (), we declare that we have reported how we will determine our sample size, all data exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures in the study. This study was conducted as a Registered Report. All project materials (data, analysis scripts, experimental code) can be found on the project page entitled: Attention to identities and locations in groups ().
: This study explores the dynamics of our spatial orienting behaviours when attending to groups of peopleāin particular, the extent and means by which trustworthy information pertaining to task goals can be gleaned from a group. We discover that attention is not strongly shifted by social group behaviour (people looking left or right), regardless of the trustworthiness of the information provided by the Location or Identity within a group of faces. Our study suggests that highly salient social cues (i.e., including apparent motion, shifts in head direction) may be needed in a group setting to shift attention.