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Jul 15, 2012, 11:28 AM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,123
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Quote:
Originally Posted by krisakira
I just have a simple question. Are you supposed to make eye contact with a person the whole time they are talking to you? I look away a lot, and I don't know if it's appropriate or not. I remember even as a child I didn't know where to look.
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Krisakira, amount of eye contact is culture and gender related. In Western society intermitent eye contact is the norm. It sounds like that is what you are doing - making eye contact, looking away, making contact again. Continually non-stop eye contact can be perceived as challenging or threatening. Also, long eye contact between opposite sex people is considered a sexual invitation.
Pachy, I remember my father saying the same thing to me just before he would light into me. Conversely, there were times I'd end up staring at him because I'd dissociated. Then I'd be in trouble for staring. 
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