question: How do we always seem to "know" when someone is watching us
comment: Because consciousness moves faster than awareness. You are literally processing more information at any given moment than you could make sense of if it wasn’t filtered down to most relevant at the moment
passages: It is believed that humans evolved agent detection as a survival strategy. In situations where one is unsure of the presence of an intelligent agent (such as an enemy or a predator), there is survival value in assuming its presence so that precautions can be taken. For example, if a human came across an indentation in the ground that might be a lion's footprint, it is advantageous to err on the side of caution and assume that the lion is present.
  
  Psychologists Kurt Gray and Daniel Wegner wrote: 
  
  Section::::Time-consuming steps, fast escapes and criticism.
   Being able to view inmates from the tower is seen almost as ‘God like’. The observer can watch over the cells without the inmates being able to see him in return. “If I can observe the watcher who spies upon me, I can control my surveillance, I can spy in turn, I can learn the watcher’s ways, his weaknesses, I can study his habits, I can elude him. If the eye is hidden, it looks at me even when it is not actually observing me. By concealing itself in the shadows, the eye can intensify all its powers.” 
   group" (p. 18). According to Altman, "dialectic" refers to the openness and closeness of self to others (i.e., seeking and avoiding social interaction); while "dynamics"
  
  indicates that the desired privacy level (i.e., the ideal level of contact at a particular
  
  time), which varies due to individual and cultural differences, continuously moves along
  
  the continuum of openness and closeness in response to different circumstances over time.
  
  In other words, the desired privacy level changes with time according to environment. Therefore, we might want to avoid people at a particular time but desire contact at another time.
   A method used to test ToM in human children has been adapted for testing non-human animals. The basis of the test is to track the gaze of the animal. One human hides an object in view of a second human who then leaves the room. The object is then removed. The second human returns whereupon they will mistakenly look for the object where they last saw it. If the animal stares first and longest at the location where the human last saw the object, this suggests they expect him to believe it is still hidden in that place.
   Section::::The gaze in systems of power.
   In addition to the research papers and articles, Dr. Frank has also been a part of "Human Behavior and Deception Detection" along with Maureen O’Sullivan from the University of San Francisco, and Melissa A. Menasco from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. This article is a chapter written in "Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security". 
   BULLET::::- "Freedom Wars" is a PSVita action role-playing game which set in the dystopian future. Most of the human population were sentenced 1,000,000 years of imprisonment since they were born. They were dwelling inside the enclosed metropolitan cities named "Panopticon". The society were under heavy surveillance by numbers of "Accessory" androids. And the criminals were forced to hard labors of finding resources in the outside world, and then contribute to their government to exchange for few years amnesty or gain access to several human rights. In the game, the slogan "We gaze at you" is the parody of "Big Brother is watching you" in "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
   Section::::Body motion.:Detection errors.
   BULLET::::- The first is "media tracking": audio from the user’s television may be detected by the microphone in the user’s mobile device, allowing malicious actors to gain access to what the user is watching––particularly if it is salacious. Advertisers can similarly gain insight into what a user typically watches. In both scenarios, a user’s real-world behavior is linked to their online identity and used for tracking.
   Section::::Bacteria.:Evolution.:Controversy.
   Section::::Concept.:Overview.
  
  Section::::Concept.:Overview.:Micro-Doppler Effect.
   Another form of behavioral biometrics, based on affective computing, involves computers recognizing a person's emotional state based on an analysis of their facial expressions, how fast they are talking, the tone and pitch of their voice, their posture, and other behavioral traits. This might be used for instance to see if a person's behavior is suspect (looking around furtively, "tense" or "angry" facial expressions, waving arms, etc.).
   Section::::Biological Motion Perception Models.:Action Recognition by Motion Detection in Posture Space (Theusner, Lussanet, and Lappe, 2014).:Motion Model.
  
  "Motion Detection in Posture Space"
   Section::::Discussion.:Tag Orientation.
   The first part of the test is related to the notion "in plain view". If a person did not undertake reasonable efforts to conceal something from a casual observer (as opposed to a snoop), then no subjective expectation of privacy is assumed.
   The perceiver uses knowledge motivations in order to get a stable and predictable view of those whom one interacts, eliciting behavioral confirmation. Perceivers use knowledge-oriented strategies, which occur when perceivers view their interactions with targets as opportunities to find out about their targets' personality and to check their impressions of targets, leading perceivers to ask belief-confirming questions. The perceiver asks the target questions in order to form stable and predictable impressions of their partner, and perceivers tend to confidently assume that possession of even the limited information gathered about the other person gives them the ability to predict that that person's future will be consistent with the impressions gathered.
   Section::::Body motion.
  
  Research on body motion in social vision focuses on what information perceivers are able to extract when seeing an individual move. This research is primarily conducted by showing subjects point-light displays of human movement. The underlying premise of body motion research is that a large amount of social information is conveyed when a body is in motion, and the human visual system is fine-tuned to detect such social information.
  
  Section::::Body motion.:Social perception.
  
  Section::::Body motion.:Social perception.:Personality characteristics.
   Another way to produce attentional priming in search is to provide an advance signal that is associated with the target. For example, if a person hears a song sparrow he or she may be predisposed to detect a song sparrow in a shrub, or among other birds. A number of experiments have reproduced this effect in animal subjects.
   Feature detection (nervous system)
  
  Feature detection is a process by which the nervous system sorts or filters complex natural stimuli in order to extract behaviorally relevant cues that have a high probability of being associated with important objects or organisms in their environment, as opposed to irrelevant background or noise.
  
  "Feature detectors" are individual neurons—or groups of neurons—in the brain which code for perceptually significant stimuli. Early in the sensory pathway feature detectors tend to have simple properties; later they become more and more complex as the features to which they respond become more and more specific.
   In modern psychology, vigilance, also termed sustained concentration, is defined as the ability to maintain concentrated attention over prolonged periods of time. During this time, the person attempts to detect the appearance of a particular target stimulus. The individual watches for a signal stimulus that may occur at an unknown time. The study of vigilance has expanded since the 1940s mainly due to the increased interaction of people with machines for applications involving monitoring and detection of rare events and weak signals. Such applications include air traffic control, inspection and quality control, automated navigation, military and border surveillance, and lifeguarding.
   Chimpanzees have passed the False Belief Test (see above) involving anticipating the gaze of humans when objects have been removed.
  
  Section::::In nonhuman primates.:Other primates.
   One function of watch centers, at least those in agencies and commands with collection and surveillance capabilities, is to monitor the availability of sensors, scheduled patrols, etc. Part of the tactical surprise at the Battle of Pearl Harbor was that patrol aircraft were supposed to be aloft and the early radar station operating, but no watch center verified this—senior officers assumed it was being done.
   Often behavioral and passive characteristics are combined, for example a prey animal may look similar to and behave like its hunter's own predator (see mimicry).
  
  Section::::Prey detection using different senses.
   Equiveillance represents a situation where all parties of a society or economy are empowered to be able to use the tools of accountability to make beneficial decisions. Humanity has always sought to establish authority relationships: the increasing trend to record information from our environment, and of ourselves creates the need to delineate the relationships between privacy, surveillance, and sousveillance.
   Section::::Behavioral analytics.:Active environments.:What the artificial intelligence 'understands'.
  