“…These processes also include attentional ones: direct gaze has been shown to attract and grab the perceiver's attention. In the visual search paradigm, detection times are shorter for deviant direct gaze targets among averted gaze distractors than for averted gaze targets among direct gaze distractors, a phenomenon dubbed the "stare-in-the-crowd" effect (Conty, Tijus, Hugueville, Coelho, & George, 2006;Doi, Ueda, & Shinohara, 2009;Senju, Hasegawa, & Tojo, 2005;Shirama, 2012;von Grünau & Anston, 1995). Moreover, even a task-irrelevant direct gaze facilitates visual search for facial expressions (Doi & Shinohara, 2013), and targets presented at the location of a direct gaze are detected faster than those presented at the location of averted gaze (Böckler, van der Wel, & Welsh, 2014;Miyazaki, Ichihara, Wake, & Wake, 2012).…”