Eye contact???

I agree but it is not natural nor polite to stare into there eyes and not occasionally look away.

I hardly maintain eye contact with people that I talk to. It's not that I'm not sincere when talking to them but rather finding it weird if I look at them for too long. It makes me feel better to keep eye contact with them for a while, break for a moment and back to eye contact. I know that my action may turn people off but I can't help it.

I am very aware of eye contact when communicating with someone. I learned about this before I started going on job interviews as a teenager. But, as I am looking over the last few days, I am realizes that the majority of people that I have spoken to, don't maintain eye contact.

Hi mycharm88! Yes, I do maintain eye contact whenver I engage in conversations or even just walking down the street, I look peple in the eyes and smile at them a lot. I guess, it is how I am and I am just simply interested in people. Take care and have a nice day.

I maintain some eye contact, but it's very difficult to know how much is necessary, and when it becomes staring. I don't want to make the person feel uncomfortable by staring, but at the same time I don't want to keep looking away, or past the person, and send the message that I'm not interested in what the person has to say.

its kinda hard to mantain eye contact to the people i talked..because its like everytime our eye mets i feel kinda embarrased (except for my loved ones) especially if it's a guy or a girl..its just hard

I do for the most part. Sometimes I'm having to talk and chase my one year old around. LOL

i do maintain eye contact when i do talk or communicate with other people because its really important and its that sign that i am sincere of my talking or my words.

I do. And it is extremely important. But there are some people who dare not face people. I think they are sincere, but their personality is very weak...what do others think?

Yes I do specially when I'm sharing a story it is good to look at them through there eyes as it they will be interested on what your saying and for them to know that your saying the truth and not a lie only. But sometimes when I'm talking to a strangers I don't maintain eye contact to them.

Hi mycharm88, Yes I do maintain eye contact, and I agree with you about it showing sincerity. Blessings.

I do make eye contact when talking to somebody. I agree it shows that you are sincere and honest with the way you talk to them. Making eye contact also show your confidence.

yeah I hear about this also, when you talk to somebody you should keep the eye contact.I usually keep it , but sometimes is not as easy as we might think, specialy when I am talking to somebody strange.I do not know why, but with people I don't know very well just cannot keep good eye contact.

when im talking with someone, i do eye contact, but sometimes will look away if i can sense that the person is already conscious. with my job as a trainer, i always maintain eye contact with my trainees so that they will be focused on my discussion as well.

Most of the times, I do not talk to people face-to-face, so for sure, I cannot maintain eye contact even if I want to. :P If I am talking to a human face to face, it depends on who I am talking to. I have trained myself such that I can talk without looking at people in the eye - especially to those whom I find talking a chore.

Oh yes, as long as I enjoy the conversation and like the people whom I am talking to, I would maintain my eye contact with them *smiles*. If I got annoyed or don't really enjoy the conversation or something, I wouldn't maintain the eye contact as a signal to the person to let me go *laughs*.

Eyes are supposed to be the window to your soul. Do you want everyone you talk to to see inside your soul? I certainly don't. I don't like eye contact at all. It completely weirds me out and when I do make it, I don't maintain it for a long period of time. I think eye contact is very intimate and I don't want to be like that with everyone I meet.

I do make eye contact when talking to somebody. I agree it shows that you are sincere and honest with the way you talk to them. Making eye contact also show your confident.

Yes I maintain eye contact during conversations. Here's some article about eye contact: Social meanings - eye contact and facial expressions provide important social and emotional information; people, perhaps without consciously doing so, probe each other's eyes and faces for positive or negative mood signs. In some parts of the world, particularly in East Asia, eye contact can provoke major misunderstanding between people of different nationalities. Keeping direct eye contact with a work supervisor or elderly people leads them to assure you are being aggressive and rude - the opposite of most Americans and Europeans. Eye contact is also a an important element in flirting, where it serves to establish and gauge the other's interest. There is a longstanding cliche about locking eyes with a "stranger across a crowded room", which originated witht the song "Some Enchanted Evening" from the 1949 musical South Pacific Cultural differences - In other culture, they often lower their gaze and try not to focus on the opposite gender's faces and eyes after the initial first eye contact, other than their legitimate partners or family members, in order to avoid potential unwanted desires. Lustful glances to those of the opposite gender, young or adult, are also prohibited. This means that eye contact between any man and woman is allowed only for a second or two. This is a must in most in their schools, with some exceptions depending on the case, like when teaching, testifying, or looking at a girl for marriage. If allowed, it is only allowed under the general rule: "No-Desire", clean eye-contact. Otherwise, it is not allowed, and considered "adultery of the eyes."In many cultures it is respectful to not look the dominant person in the eye, but in Western culture this can be interpreted as being "shifty-eyed", and the person judged badly because "he wouldn't look me in the eyes". Eye aversion and mental processing - a study by university of Stirling Psychologists found that children who avoid eye contact while considering their responses to questions had higher rates of correct answers than children who maintained eye contact. One researcher theorized that looking at human faces requires a lot of mental processing, which detracts from the cognitive task at hand. Researchers also noted that a blank stare indicated a lack of understanding. Miscellaneous - In adults, eye contact shows personal involvement and creates intimate bonds. Mutual gaze narrows the physical gap between humans. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris invented a device called the Interrotron which allowed his interview subjects to make direct eye contact with Morris while simultaneously looking directly into the filming camera. It allows the film's viewers to maintain eye contact with people in Morris' films, giving what some describe as a more intimate acquiantance with them.

yes 90% percent of the times i have an eye contact when talkin or else i feel the person doesnt get tht importance wat is to be maintained while havin a conversation.but yes when i am lying i cant think of talking eye to eye...hahahaha