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Eye‐contact in dyads: A test of the Independence Hypothesis
Author(s) -
Lazzerini A. J.,
Stephenson G. M.,
Neave H.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - rutter , independence (probability theory) , eye contact , psychology , dyad , test (biology) , optometry , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics , medicine , paleontology , biology
Rutter et al. (1977) reported that for a wide range of ‘looking’ data, collected independently, the amount of eye‐contact observed could be accounted for by using a ‘chance’ formula, which assumed independence of Looking on the part of each subject in a dyad. This Independence Hypothesis was tested more rigorously by running a computer simulation, generating ‘eye‐contact’ by chance alone. It was impossible to distinguish between this and eye‐contact observed in one of the experiments by Lazzerini & Stephenson (1975) employed by Rutter et al. (1977). Hence, there is no reason to doubt that the subjects' Looks are in fact independent.

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