Social issues Is eye contact that important? When you talk to a person you think the most important aspects of yourself are looks, body language and what you say, right?This is true, but Albert Mehrabian, professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles established through his research the effectiveness of spoken communication highlighted by the 7%-38%-55% Rule, where 7% of meaning is in the words that are spoken, 38% of meaning is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said) and 55% of meaning is in facial expression.
The act of making eye contact has different meanings and it varies from one continent to another. For example, in United States if you have good eye contact with a person, it generally signifies that you are interested in the person you are looking at and in what that person is saying. If you look down or away from a person rather than meet their gaze, you are considered to be distracted or uninterested in them. Also, if you neglect to make eye contact with a person, you may be thought to lack self-confidence.
55% of meaning is in facial expression? Yes. There’s something in your face that says more than your words ever could.. Eye contact. It’s more intimate than words will ever be, it is how souls catch on fire, it’s so very dangerous, but so very lovely at the same time. It’s what gives you unique feelings. So what should you pay attention to when you look in one’s eyes?
In W estern Europe it is considered proper and polite to maintain almost constant eye contact with another person during a business exchange or a conversation but it has a more flirtatious conotation that in the U.S. and, as a result, one may feel quite free to look at someone he is interested in and try to acknowledge his interest by making eye contact. In Middle East, eye contact is much less common and considered to be less appropriate than it is in the United States. Middle Eastern cultures, largely Muslim, have strict rules regarding eye contact between the sexes; these rules are connected to religious laws about appropriateness. Only a brief moment of eye contact would be permitted between a man and a woman, if at all. On the other hand, in many Middle Eastern cultures, intense eye contact between those of the same gender—especially between men—can mean “Trust me! I’m honest!”. In many A sian, A frican and Latin A merican cultures, extended eye contact can be taken as an affront or a challenge of authority. If a Japanese woman avoids looking someone in the eyes, she does not show a lack of interest, nor is she demonstrating lack of self-confidence; instead, she is being polite, respectful and appropriate
First and foremost, to the pupils for these are a part of the body language that the subject has no control over. Eckhard Hess discovered that if the pupil of the person we’re talking to is dilated, this means that they are interested in us. Next, pay attention to blinking. Aside from our instinctive need to blink, the emotions and feelings of the person who talks to us towards ourselves can cause them to subconciously alter their blink rate. Blinking more than the average 610 times per minute can be a good indicator that a person is attracted to the person they're talking to and is for this reason used as a sign of flirting.
according to her culture. Octavia Toader, 11B