WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.210 --> 00:00:01.378 - When you meet someone for the first time, 00:00:01.378 --> 00:00:02.963 what's the first thing you look at? 00:00:02.963 --> 00:00:04.297 First couple of seconds of meeting them. 00:00:04.297 --> 00:00:05.549 - Their face. 00:00:05.549 --> 00:00:06.257 - Their face? 00:00:06.257 --> 00:00:07.218 - I guess, their eyes. 00:00:07.218 --> 00:00:07.913 - Let's be honest here. 00:00:07.913 --> 00:00:08.417 - Eyes. 00:00:08.417 --> 00:00:09.094 - It's the eyes? 00:00:09.094 --> 00:00:09.886 - Their style. 00:00:09.886 --> 00:00:10.555 - The eyes. 00:00:10.555 --> 00:00:11.545 - What is about the eyes that-- 00:00:11.545 --> 00:00:13.131 - Whether they're alive or not. 00:00:13.131 --> 00:00:13.766 - Oh! 00:00:13.766 --> 00:00:14.767 First couple seconds. 00:00:14.767 --> 00:00:15.768 - Their eyes. 00:00:15.768 --> 00:00:16.434 - Their eyes! 00:00:16.434 --> 00:00:17.247 - Their eyes. 00:00:17.247 --> 00:00:18.224 - Their eyes? 00:00:18.224 --> 00:00:20.523 - So it seems like most people claim to look at eyes first. 00:00:20.523 --> 00:00:21.691 I don't know if I believe that. 00:00:21.691 --> 00:00:23.473 We're going to go back to the office, test it out. 00:00:23.473 --> 00:00:24.568 See if it's true. 00:00:30.688 --> 00:00:32.117 Alright, now we're back at the office. 00:00:32.117 --> 00:00:33.484 I'm going grab Yessica and we're going to 00:00:33.484 --> 00:00:35.328 get going on an experiment to find out 00:00:35.328 --> 00:00:36.997 what people actually do look at 00:00:36.997 --> 00:00:38.114 when they first meet someone. 00:00:38.114 --> 00:00:41.460 So step one, we need to hire some humans 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:43.378 and shoot footage of them walking, talking, 00:00:43.378 --> 00:00:45.380 looking into the camera, and getting undressed. 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:46.756 You know, human stuff. 00:00:46.756 --> 00:00:50.052 Then we set up eye motions and an eye tracking software 00:00:50.052 --> 00:00:52.220 and bring in our coworkers to check out the footage. 00:00:52.220 --> 00:00:55.016 - You looking at her face, looking at their faces. 00:00:55.016 --> 00:00:56.892 - Those eyeballs. 00:00:56.892 --> 00:00:59.103 - As they watch this odd video, we will 00:00:59.103 --> 00:01:01.564 record every movement of their eyes. 00:01:04.934 --> 00:01:05.893 When we watch the analysis back 00:01:05.893 --> 00:01:08.529 and search for patterns, we found some unexpected results. 00:01:08.529 --> 00:01:10.229 The first was that ladies and dudes 00:01:10.229 --> 00:01:12.533 seemed to check out boobs the same amount. 00:01:12.533 --> 00:01:15.035 Yeah, dudes thought they'd probably glance at breasts. 00:01:15.035 --> 00:01:17.079 - At least with women, I'm definitely looking 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.748 at you know, like, you know, breasts. 00:01:19.748 --> 00:01:20.915 - She's wearing an open shirt. 00:01:20.915 --> 00:01:21.960 Where are you supposed to look? 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:23.169 - Then like the deep V? 00:01:23.169 --> 00:01:24.752 - But women dig boobs too. 00:01:24.752 --> 00:01:27.423 - Oh woah, that is a deeply cut shirt. 00:01:27.423 --> 00:01:29.705 - And the second super surprising result 00:01:29.705 --> 00:01:31.719 was that even with all the accessories, 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:33.845 boob, dicks and all the distractions, 00:01:33.845 --> 00:01:37.432 they're all in the frame, we still look at faces the most. 00:01:37.432 --> 00:01:40.226 And not just eyes as many thought but the whole face. 00:01:40.226 --> 00:01:43.230 But why do we do this? 00:01:43.230 --> 00:01:44.439 Is it to be polite? 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:46.817 Is it because eyes are the window to the soul? 00:01:46.817 --> 00:01:47.817 Nope. 00:01:47.817 --> 00:01:50.736 Research actually hypothesizes that we look at faces first 00:01:50.736 --> 00:01:52.656 because we're programmed to find faces. 00:01:52.656 --> 00:01:54.615 In fact, look what happens when we show people 00:01:54.615 --> 00:01:55.743 this picture of pasta. 00:01:55.743 --> 00:01:59.537 We find the face even in this inanimate picture. 00:01:59.537 --> 00:02:01.080 And this picture. 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:02.624 And this one too. 00:02:02.624 --> 00:02:04.125 This is because as social creatures, 00:02:04.125 --> 00:02:05.709 our ability to quickly find a face 00:02:05.709 --> 00:02:07.170 and determine if it was friendly or not 00:02:07.170 --> 00:02:09.374 kept our ancestors alive. 00:02:09.374 --> 00:02:11.374 Today those same skills help us 00:02:11.374 --> 00:02:13.259 navigate our complex social world 00:02:13.259 --> 00:02:15.345 of group hangs and Tinder dates. 00:02:15.345 --> 00:02:17.380 So people were kind of right. 00:02:17.380 --> 00:02:18.807 We do look at eyes first. 00:02:18.807 --> 00:02:20.266 But it's only because we're hard wired 00:02:20.266 --> 00:02:21.976 to find and interpret faces. 00:02:21.976 --> 00:02:23.813 - That's some cool science for you. 00:02:23.813 --> 00:02:24.480 - Yeah. 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:26.106 Yeah. 00:02:26.106 --> 00:02:27.232 - Cool. 00:02:27.232 --> 00:02:27.941 - Yeah, cool. 00:02:27.941 --> 00:02:28.525 - Science. 00:02:28.525 --> 00:02:30.059 - Cool science.