India, Feb. 19 -- In recent years, the use of CCTV in public areas, trackable mobile devices, and AI technology to monitor our activities has surged. Research indicates that we tend to behave more positively when we feel observed-a phenomenon known as the "audience effect."
Consider this scenario: you're working on your laptop in a new setting surrounded by colleagues, all under the watchful eye of CCTV cameras. You can't shake the feeling that someone is observing you. Is that intuition reliable? Studies show it is. Our brains are naturally wired to detect the presence of a watcher, processing facial cues instinctively even before we consciously realize it.
When we believe we're being watched, our sensitivity to direct gaze increases, re...