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How Long To Maintain Eye Contact?
Did you know that the most comfortable length of maintaining eye contact is 3.6 seconds?
Yes, it is seen as akward and uncomfortable to maintain eye contact too long.
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The Mystery Of Maintaining Eye Contact During A Conversation
Why to maintain eye contact? Maintaining eye contact makes you feel more confident and it will decrease the chance to be seen as weak
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What To Do After The 3.6 Seconds?
After the 3.6 Seconds you can look to the side of someone’s face but NEVER look on the ground.
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Too much eye contact
We can feel uncomfortable when people make too much eye contact.
Psychologists concluded that three seconds is the preferred length of eye contact. Gazes longer than nine seconds may come across as creepy.
Maintain Eye Contact
You can predictably determine someone’s emotions from their gaze. Eye contact is the crucial first step for resonance, or a person’s ability to read someone else’s emotions.
Make and maintain eye contact when you’re giving someone feedback.
Practice making eye contact
Eye contact is something you can practice and get good at.
- If making eye contact with strangers is too difficult, start with people you feel comfortable with. Learn to look into your best friend's eyes when they tell you about their day, not at their ears or the wall behind them.
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