The evil eye: Eye gaze and competitiveness in social decision making

The evil eye

Estimating the eye gaze from one eye

Eye gaze estimation via images has been well investigated and all methods worked on images with the full face. This makes the eye details small and accuracy is affected. We address this problem by zooming in on a single eye. In this paper, we will show the validity of the method and investigate the performance with controlled synthetic data and also with real images. The principle is to rely on...

In the Glimpse of an Eye: Decision Making and Vision

Rapid visual search, depending on iconic memory, is a core but controversial psychophysical topic. A key example is the claim by Horowitz & Wolfe (1998a) that ‘visual search has no memory. Their evidence is the effect of increasing search set size in a letter identification task. Search time per item was unimpaired when all letters were randomly relocated during the search. This paper presents ...

Plants Associated with Withcraft and Evil Eye

The present article, continuation of a previous work, is an attempt to study the plants to which magical properties are attributed. It is based on published information as well as survey conducted by the authors.

Red Eye due to Leech in the Eye

A 65–yrs-old man referred for an ocular discomfort and red eye. The clinical diagnosis was leech in the left eye and its species confirmed as being Limnatis nilotica. Ocular leech infestation should be considered in patients with a history of swimming or washing their face in streams and lakes. Attention should also be given to ocular leech infestation in the differential diagnosis of ocular tr...