http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/30/12-year-old-uses-dungeons-and-dragons-to-help-scientist-dad-with-his-research/

This is just ... awesome on many fronts.

Misleading- he was 14 when published.

Yeah, but he was 12 when he started.

Huh. I figured people would find this interesting. Guess not.

He should have done the research on humans or humanoid creatures in Daggerfall.

We need to know which pixels people look at first. This would help to determine why I want to forcibly copulate with that game.

Makes sense. The eyes are the most expressive part of the body, and I would wager it's a fundamental form of risk assessment to look at someone's (or something's) eyes.

I agree if your definition of 'expressive' is that of 'telling' and not deriving from expression. Unless I'm a minority, I'd say many of us humans are not able to tell the expressions of the eyes for animals like cats and dogs, we decide if they're hostile by their posture and actions - such as a dog barking or a cat positioning itself to pounce. More simply, I believe we look for eyes because we mostly use vision to understand the world around us. If there are eyes, we then assess whether the creature is looking at us and, if it is, what its apparent disposition is - based on posture and actions. Eyes are a focal point for knowing if we're the focal point of the eyes.

Yes, I meant exactly that. The eyes are the primary point of contact with the external world, the most immediate connection between what we perceive and what we're thinking, and by examining what someone or something looks at we can pick up on what's being processed internally. That whole "I know what you're thinking..." sixth sense, in a way. Maybe other species can do the same with their own kind, but other creatures are too alien? Then again, humans are generally more expressive as a whole (at least facially.)