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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fearful gaze" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's expression or look that conveys fear or apprehension. Example: "As the thunderstorm raged outside, she looked out the window with a fearful gaze, unsure of what would happen next."
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Bill, a workaholic businessman whose field is unidentified, is a man whose avoidance of domestic conflict in his 20-year marriage has left him with a reservoir of overwhelming, unexpressed anger that roils behind his haunted, fearful gaze.
Present results showed that after placebo, as usual, the fearful gaze cues caused stronger orienting of attention than happy faces.
Both faster engagement and slowed attentional disengagement have been found in experiments using fearful gaze as a directional cue (Fox, Mathews, Calder, & Yiend, 2007; Mathews, Fox, Yiend, & Calder, 2003).
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Yet I may have been more fearful of others' gaze than I knew.
Previously, opposite effects have been found for presentation of averted and direct gaze fearful faces.
Such acquisitions allowed a comparison of BOLD responses to averted and direct gaze fearful faces with a relatively short or long duration in a single session, confirming that the inversion of the detected BOLD responses is due only to the duration of the presented stimulus.
At the same time, our gaze is fearful and predatory and, under it, children have become erotically suggestive creatures.
In combination with a fearful facial expression eye gaze can also signal threat in the environment.
We directly investigated whether young infants' neural responses can be affected by an adult's fearful expression and eye gaze when directed at an unfamiliar object.
A fearful face directing eye gaze at a novel stimulus may rapidly elicit activation in subcortical structures which then modulate activation in cortical structures related to attentional processes [4].
First, it is conceivable that a fearful face directing eye gaze toward a simultaneously presented object elicits an unspecific arousal which causes infants to direct attention toward any following stimulus.
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