 Much of the research in social vision is based on the prevailing theory that the visual system is particularly attuned to social cues in the environment.More of the human brain is devoted to vision than all other senses combined, and social vision research seeks to understand how humans are able to use vision to accurately perceive characteristics of other individuals such as age, race, gender, and sexual orientation in a short time frame as well as how individual beliefs may bias the way humans perceive said individuals.Social vision was developed as a research field in the early 2000s.