Keywords: Eye movements Face perception

Social interaction lips nctio to u gaze, we manipulated participants ’ beliefs about social context as they looked at the same stimuli. Participants watched videos of faces of higher and lower ranked people, while they into face perception, we cannot be certain whether gaze serves to encode information or to signal intentions. We aim to is an im sello, Car Connellan, & Ahluwalia, 2000), and learning to interpret what another person thinks and feels by looking at the eyes appears to be crucial to many aspects of social cogni-tion (Charman et al., 2001; Senju & Csibra, 2008)