---
_id: '65565'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\r\n                  <jats:p>Gaze behavior,
    being continuously accessible to interlocutors in face-to-face interactions, serves
    as a cue for managing turn-taking, regulating the duration of topical sequences,
    and supporting cognitive processing in various everyday conversational contexts.
    The present study seeks to enhance the understanding of the relation between two
    forms of interactive gaze behavior – gaze aversions and mutual gaze – and the
    topical development in the explanatory discourse. To do so, we analyzed 24 dyadic
    board game explanations in which one explainer subsequently explained a board
    game to three different explainees while the board game was physically absent
    from the shared space. The main objective of the present study was to investigate
    the relation of gaze aversions and mutual gaze to the topical development of explanations.
    For this, based on previous research (Lazarov et al., 2024; Rossano, 2012) we
    hypothesized that (1) gaze aversions are more likely to be associated with topic
    changes than topic continuations, and that (2) mutual gaze is more likely to be
    associated with topic continuations than topic changes. In addition, we explored
    how the two forms of gaze behavior are related to the interlocutor who initiates
    a topic change or continuation. Our proportional analysis using a Generalized
    linear mixed effects model revealed that gaze aversions are related to topic changes
    initiated by both interlocutors. In contrast, the analysis did not reveal a significant
    relation between mutual gaze and topic continuations, which could be explained
    by the feedback elicitation function of mutual gaze at the end of speakers’ utterances
    (Bavelas et al., 2002; Brône et al., 2017; Kendon, 1967) while monitoring the
    addressees’ understanding (Clark &amp; Krych, 2004) and the complexity of the
    analyzed fixed and random effects.</jats:p>"
author:
- first_name: Stefan Teodorov
  full_name: Lazarov, Stefan Teodorov
  id: '90345'
  last_name: Lazarov
  orcid: 0009-0009-0892-9483
- first_name: Angela
  full_name: Grimminger, Angela
  id: '57578'
  last_name: Grimminger
citation:
  ama: Lazarov ST, Grimminger A. How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual Gaze Related to
    the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions? <i>Journal of Nonverbal
    Behavior</i>. Published online 2026. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>
  apa: Lazarov, S. T., &#38; Grimminger, A. (2026). How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual
    Gaze Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions? <i>Journal
    of Nonverbal Behavior</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Lazarov_Grimminger_2026, title={How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual
    Gaze Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>},
    journal={Journal of Nonverbal Behavior}, publisher={Springer Science and Business
    Media LLC}, author={Lazarov, Stefan Teodorov and Grimminger, Angela}, year={2026}
    }'
  chicago: Lazarov, Stefan Teodorov, and Angela Grimminger. “How Are Gaze Aversions
    and Mutual Gaze Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?”
    <i>Journal of Nonverbal Behavior</i>, 2026. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>.
  ieee: 'S. T. Lazarov and A. Grimminger, “How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual Gaze
    Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?,” <i>Journal
    of Nonverbal Behavior</i>, 2026, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>.'
  mla: Lazarov, Stefan Teodorov, and Angela Grimminger. “How Are Gaze Aversions and
    Mutual Gaze Related to the Topical Development of Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?”
    <i>Journal of Nonverbal Behavior</i>, Springer Science and Business Media LLC,
    2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8">10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8</a>.
  short: S.T. Lazarov, A. Grimminger, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (2026).
date_created: 2026-05-05T14:19:47Z
date_updated: 2026-05-05T14:23:30Z
department:
- _id: '660'
doi: 10.1007/s10919-026-00512-8
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '112'
  name: 'TRR 318; TP A02: Verstehensprozess einer Erklärung beobachten und auswerten'
publication: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0191-5886
  - 1573-3653
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
status: public
title: How are Gaze Aversions and Mutual Gaze Related to the Topical Development of
  Dyadic Explanatory Interactions?
type: journal_article
user_id: '90345'
year: '2026'
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