Sarah uses eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the effect of eye-gaze on our interactions with other people. Her research focuses on how seeing someone with direct or averted gaze can help us empathize with them and help us to make inferences about what they are thinking and feeling. She also studies how the situational context in which we view faces interacts with their eye-gaze to modulate our face perception, and examines how gaze and emotional expressions interact to orient an observer’s attention to a gazed-at location.
