For making contact and communicating with a person, effective eye contact is essential to our everyday interaction with people, and also to those who want to be effective communicators in public places. .
Generally in Western societies and many other cultures, eye contact with a person is expected to be regular but not overly persistent., causing the person who's the object of a person's stare to feel overly studied and uncomfortable.
. The New Zealand Medical Journal reported that one reason so many young children fall victim to attacks by pet dogs is their overly-lasting eye contact with pets, which causes them to feel threatened and defensive.
Overly lasting eye contact is also a sign of a person's over-awareness of the messages they are giving. In the case of people who try to lie to someone, they may distort (扭曲) their eye contact so that they're not avoiding it. . But on the contrary, evasive (逃避的) eye contact is a sign of discomfort. Why do we avoid looking at a person? It may be because we feel ashamed to be looking at them if we're being dishonest of trying to take them in. Evasive eye contact may also a sign of dishonesty.
However, Scotland's University of Stirling found that, in a question-and-answer study among children, those who maintained eye contact were less likely to come up with the correct answer to a question than those who looked away to consider their response. , otherwise this energy could have been spent on deep thinking.
A. This is a widely recognized indicator of lying
B. Constant eye contact is often considered to be rude
C. Eye contact is the act of looking into someone's eyes
D. But there's something you may not know about eye contact
E. Overpowering eye contact can make the other person excited
F. Even between humans and non-humans, lasting eye contact is sometimes unadvisable
G. Eye contact, as a socializing device, can take a surprising amount of effort to maintain
