The perception of eye contact is associated with men’s need to belong, self-esteem, and loneliness

• Manman Zhai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Information Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-8715

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• Heini Saarimäki,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Information Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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• Jari K. Hietanen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jari.hietanen@tuni.fi

  Affiliation Human Information Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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