 Previous studies on social attention often regard how attention is directed toward socially relevant stimuli such as faces and gaze directions of other individuals.In contrast to attending-to-others, a different line of researches has shown that self-related information such as own face and name automatically captures attention and is preferentially processed comparing to other-related information.These contrasting effects between attending-to-others and attending-to-self prompt a synthetic view in a recent Opinion article  proposing that social attention operates at two polarizing states