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Why Eye Contact is Important

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Why is making eye contact so important? Catching someone’s eyes across a crowded room can lead to a passionate love affair. Yet catching the wrong person’s eye in a bar could lead to a tussle of another kind.

Mikes Williams explores why eye contact is an essential part of a baby’s development; how it is used to attract a partner and what our eyes give away about us, which is beyond our control.

(Photo: Eyes making contact. Credit: Shutterstock)


Published on Friday, 13th June 2014.

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