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Cereal-Box Characters Look You In The Eye

Cornell researchers, studying 65 cereals in 10 different grocer stores, found that the average angle of the gaze of cereal box characters is 9.6-degree down. Adult cereal gazes are straight ahead. It seems to matter. Consumers are 16% more likely to trust a brand of cereal when the characters on the boxes on the supermarket shelves look them straight in the eye. 

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