2025/05/13 by Maximilian Krug · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Child and Animal Learning Development #Psychology of Social Influence
paper · doi:10.1075/pbns.351.06kru
Abstract Social interaction requires participants to be aligned with each other. Interactional disalignment occurs when actions are inappropriate for a given situation or when actions are not followed up by interlocutors. This study examines gaze aversion as a visual practice in which participants display and maintain interactional impasses that result from disalignment. As the data suggest, the participants redirect their foveal attention to interactional less relevant areas of interest to avoid visually addressing other participants and show self-involvement as a state of unavailability. The data basis is two video recordings (40 min each) of triadic interactions in a laboratory. The participants wear mobile eye-tracking glasses (Tobii Pro Glasses 2). The data are in English.