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EYE CONTACT AS AN ANTECEDENT TO COMPLIANT BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Hamlet Carolynn C.,
Axelrod Saul,
Kuerschner Steven
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1984.17-553
Subject(s) - eye contact , facilitator , psychology , multiple baseline design , variety (cybernetics) , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , applied psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , intervention (counseling) , psychiatry
Many experimenters and practitioners regard eye contact between instructor and learner as a facilitator, if not a prerequisite, to the effective instruction of sighted people. Without scientifically supporting the practice of demanding eye contact, experimenters, nonetheless, advocate its use and offer a variety of procedures to promote its acquisition. To justify the widespread use of demanded eye contact and to explain its role functionally, one experiment and data from six replications with nine subjects are presented. The primary experiment provides an empirical base for the training of eye contact prior to instruction. In a multiple‐baseline design across two students demanded eye contact resulted in levels of compliance that were double and triple those of baseline. A tentative functional analysis of demanded eye contact is presented, followed by a discussion of the relationship of eye contact to attending.