eye contact
(noun)
The condition or action of looking at another human or animal in the eye.
Examples of eye contact in the following topics:
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Eye Contact
- Eye contact is the meeting of the eyes between two individuals.
- The study of eye contact is sometimes known as oculesics.
- Eye contact can establish a sense of intimacy between two individuals, such as the gazes of lovers or the eye contact involved in flirting.
- Alternatively, avoiding eye contact can establish distance between people.
- When in crowds, people tend to avoid eye contact in order to maintain privacy.
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Understanding Social Interaction
- Social interactions can also be nonverbal, like eye contact made between two people.
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Applied Body Language
- Body language is a form of human non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements.
- Body language may include flicking one's hair, eye contact, brief touching, open stances, and close proximity between partners.
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Nonverbal Communication
- This type of communication includes gestures, touch, body language, posture, facial expressions, and eye contact.
- With all of the various muscles that precisely control the mouth, lips, eyes, nose, forehead, and jaw, human faces can make more than ten thousand different expressions.
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Gender Differences in Social Interaction
- Women are more inclined to face each other and make eye contact when talking, while men are more likely to look away from each other.
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Prejudice
- Why don’t we instead notice whether their eyes are friendly, whether they are smiling, their height, the type of clothes they are wearing?
- Thus, certain types of education, contact, interactions, and building relationships with members of different cultural groups can reduce the tendency toward prejudice.
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Social Isolation
- Social isolation is common in elderly populations and refers to a complete or near-complete lack of contact with other people.
- Social isolation refers to a complete or near-complete lack of contact with society.
- Loneliness reflects a temporary lack of contact with other humans and is a subjective experience.
- Social isolation, by contrast, can be objectively measured in terms of a person's social contact and relationships.
- Now, many elders are moved into elder homes with less frequent contact with their children.
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Isolation and Development
- Social isolation refers to a complete or near-complete lack of contact with society, which can affect all aspects of a person's life.
- Social isolation occurs when members of a social species (like humans) have complete or near-complete lack of contact with society.
- Social isolation is not the same as loneliness rooted in temporary lack of contact with other humans, nor is it the same as isolating actions that might be consciously undertaken by an individual.
- Social contacts influence individuals' behavior by encouraging health-promoting behaviors, such as adequate sleep, diet, exercise, and compliance with medical regimens or by discouraging health-damaging behaviors, such as smoking, excessive eating, alcohol consumption, or drug abuse.
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Social Interaction in Urban Areas
- For example, on a daily basis an urban dweller is likely to come into contact with numerous strangers, if only in passing.
- By contrast, rural dwellers may come into contact with only people who look familiar.
- Contact with the hypothetical person that Georg Simmel calls "the stranger" changes the way urban dwellers think about intimacy, personal space, and casual interactions.
- For example, on a daily basis an urban dweller is likely to come into contact with numerous strangers, if only in passing.
- By contrast, rural dwellers may come into contact with only people who look familiar.
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Child Custody Laws
- Following ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in most countries, terms such as "residence" and "contact" have superseded the concepts of "custody" and "access. " Instead of a parent having "custody" of or "access" to a child, a child is now said to "reside" or have "contact" with a parent.
- Residence and contact issues typically arise in proceedings involving divorce, annulment, and other legal proceedings where children may be involved.
- Family law proceedings which involve issues of residence and contact often generate the most acrimonious disputes.
- Residence and contact issues typically arise in proceedings involving divorce, annulment and other legal proceedings where children may be involved.In most jurisdictions the issue of which parent the child will reside with is determined in accordance with the best interests of the child.