Cross-Cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes and Its Consequences for International Relations

Abstract

Franklin, Stevenson, Ambady, and Adams observe that there is little cross-cultural research in the ability to perceive information (emotion, cognitions, etc.) from the eyes of an individual. The authors argue that the eyes play a major role in social interaction and looking at within- and between-culture use of information from the eyes, what is referred to as mind reading, is important to understanding nonverbal communication.