How Much Attention Are You Paying to the Other Person?

Erica has conducted experiments that reveal exactly how much people notice about one another. In one study, she had volunteers put on a shirt and go to meet another person. The catch the shirt had a photo in the front of pablo escobar, the infamous columbian drug laud responsible for dozens of murders. And we asked the person wearing the paboascabar shirt how much attention they thought the other person was paying to them. People were paying atention to all kinds of other things about the person, you know like what they were doing.