The impact of eye contact.

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Part One: Eye Contact

Imagine yourself at a party, bar, get together, walking down a busy street, or shopping. While you’re at one busy place, have you ever counted how many times you make eye contact? Most likely not. But if you make eye contact with someone you deem attractive, you’ll definitely remember that. You’ll remember their face, features, the way they smile, the glances you shot back and forth. You may even feel their glances when you’re not looking. So let’s list some fun facts about eye contacts.

• We can recall more facial features when someone’s eyes are trained on us.

• An overseas study from 1980 proved that when a teacher made eye contact with students, the students had much better verbal recall of the material taught.

• When someone makes eye contact with us we before more self-aware of how we are perceived by others. We may notice things like heart rate, sweating, breathing, if the person will notice a stain or something wrong with what we have on.

• When a potential mate makes eye contact, we show more interest in that person as long as they look relatively happy.

• Eye contact during a therapeutic process has been shown to increase the patient’s appraisal of the professional’s interpersonal skills.

• Eye Contact improves the quality of social exchanges, as eye contact can show interest.

• Though eye contact with people with social anxiety can trigger intense feelings of shame and other negative emotions.

• People with borderline personality disorder may perceived eye contact as negative emotions such as threatening or being judged.

• When being confronted or challenged, say by a boss or friend, eye contact can be viewed as aggressive.

• Research shows that people are most comfortable with 3.2 seconds of eye contacts.

• Maintaining eye contact with too much intensity is a trait seen in psychopaths.

• Children with autism show a lack of eye contact due to the difficulty understanding the social significance of eye contact.

• Eye contact is proven to result in the use of more brain power. When making eye contact, studies have shown it’s more difficult to perform another task at the same time.

• We tend to form lower opinions of people when they do not meet our gaze, we assume they are less sincere and females who avoid eye contact are viewed as less hard working then men.

• When making eye contact, if the pupils dilate that can mean there’s attraction or emotional arousal present. If they constrict it can mean there’s fear or feeling threatened.

• If you look into your partners eyes, in a dimly lit room, for 10 minutes some people can begin to experience dissociation or hallucinations.

• If someone looks away or avoids eye contact, they may be experience an overload of the cognitive system.

So, I hope you guys learned some stuff you didn’t know before. Psychology blows my mind constantly, and human behavior is even more exciting. If there’s a topic you want to know about, let me know and I’ll look into it. If you know some more things about eye contact that I missed, feel free to add them via comment, email, Instagram, facebook, or snapchat.

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