Fig. 2

Trial Structure for Experiment Two. Trial structure for Experiment Two: Crosshairs were initially presented to the left or right side of the screen (A); contingent on participant fixation to the crosshair for 300 ms, a centrally presented face appeared displaying direct or averted gaze (B); contingent on participant fixation to the eyes of the face for 500 ms, the face changed gaze from direct to averted or averted to direct as depicted in C. Stimulus change was confined to the eyes of the face. The yellow “X” indicates example participant point of fixation