A prosocial function of head-gaze aversion and head-cocking in common marmosets.
Common marmoset
Eye contact
Gaze aversion
Head-cocking
Peekaboo
Social interaction
Journal
Primates; journal of primatology
ISSN: 1610-7365
Titre abrégé: Primates
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 0401152
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
24
01
2022
accepted:
17
06
2022
pubmed:
16
7
2022
medline:
14
9
2022
entrez:
15
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Gaze aversion is a behavior adopted by several mammalian and non-mammalian species in response to eye contact, and is usually interpreted as a reaction to a perceived threat. Unlike many other primate species, common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are thought to have a high tolerance for direct gaze, barely exhibiting gaze avoidance towards conspecifics and humans. Here we show that this does not hold for marmosets interacting with a familiar experimenter who suddenly establishes eye contact in a playful interaction (peekaboo). Video footage synchronously recorded from the perspective of the marmoset and the experimenter showed that the monkeys consistently alternated between eye contact and head-gaze aversion, and that these responses were often preceded by head-cocking. We hypothesize that this behavioral strategy helps marmosets to temporarily disengage from emotionally overwhelming social stimulation due to sight of another individual's face, in order to prepare for a new round of affiliative face-to-face interactions.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35838928
doi: 10.1007/s10329-022-00997-z
pii: 10.1007/s10329-022-00997-z
pmc: PMC9463209
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
535-546Subventions
Organisme : deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : TH 425/12-2
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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