Eye contact
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Eye contact occurs when two people or non-human animals look at each other's eyes at the same time. In people, eye contact is a form of nonverbal communication and can have a large influence on social
Two figures making eye contact in Caravaggio's The Fortune Teller c. 1595
Two students locking eyes
Encouraged eye contact by narrowing the visible face down to the eyes.
Two men staring each other in the eye during a political debate
Civil inattention
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Civil inattention is the respectful recognition of a stranger in an urban public space without treating them as an object of curiosity or intent. Civil inattention establishes that each recognizes the
Eye contact
…Mutual eye contact that signals attraction initially begins as a brief glance and progresses into a repeated volleying of eye contact. In the process of civil inattention, strangers in close proximity, such as a crowd, avoid eye contact in order to help maintain their privacy. A 1985 study suggested that "3-month-old…
Passengers on public transport usually avoid treating one another as objects of attention.