The journal is titled Gaze Cueing Effect in a Face-to-Face Situation. When I walked into Starbucks and scanned the room, I noticed this man and he had noticed me. We weren't that good as friends at saying hello, so it was just a civil glance of inattention, which on page 95 is described as "two people being mutually present but not involved in the interaction" (Richmond, McCroskey, and Hickson 2012). I wanted to tell the person I was with, but I didn't want it to be obvious, so I used eyes. According to Lachat, Conty, Hugueville and George, “joint attention is a fundamental triadic interaction between an observer, another person and an external object, by which the observer automatically aligns the direction of his attention with that of the object seen". person, thus allowing both people to attend to the same external object." In this case the external object was man and it worked. I managed to get the attention of the person over there and the other person looked at me to tell me he saw it
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