Staring expert named 'visionary'

Two Emory faculty members were named among the “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” by the Utne Reader: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whose vision sparked the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, social critic and author of “Staring: How We Look.”

In the first book on the basic human interaction of the prolonged gaze, Garland-Thomson borrows from psychology, biology and imaginative culture to explain why staring is such a powerful impulse. She writes that people with disabilities, who are so often subjected to second looks, can take control by helping to change the perception of starers.

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