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Uploaded by on Oct 5, 2008

Avoiding eye contact in non-verbal communication makes building a relationship difficult. Learn how to recognize eye avoidance in non-verbal communication from a communications and public speaking expert in this free relationship building video.

Expert: Tracy Goodwin
Bio: Tracy Goodwin has a masters in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking.
Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA

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  • Liers have wonderful eye contact.

  • people can often lie to you while looking straight into your eyes, unfortunately we humans have mastered all trickery to become good at lying!

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  • She's weird O_O

  • And woman prefer a longer eye contact than men do.

  • What's the rule with eye contact when walking a long and someone else is walking towards you, or sitting in a circle in class? I struggle with this because I never know where to look. I feel if I look at someone they'l think I'm staring or I'll have a strange look on my face and they'll think I'm weird or think I am being rude gah, I don't know.

  • yeah, avoiding eye contact is just as bad as staring like a machine. Both are distracting from the message being communicated.

  • In East & Southeast Asia, the natives avoid eye contact all the time just because it's considered polite and non-confrontational.

    Drives me nuts.

  • shez as fake as barbie

  • @AntiVenomFangX telling u what TO do wont help u 1% either! shez a liar!

  • telling me what not to do doesnt really help 1%.

  • If challenged about validity of something we say many Autistics will look down & even to LEFT to " internally check facts."Only Neurotypicals enjoy eye contact. Every other being on planet reacts just as we do: immediate threat mode! Lost chance for help from counselor who didn't have sense not to gaze so I reacted quite naturally with hostility just as Dog, or Chimp would! Gets us in trouble! She does not have to add to it by spreading myth ALL People who don't make eye contact are lying!

  • Actually, when people are lying, they will often develop higher levels of eye contact if the lie is pre-meditated. Eye contact avoidance is associated with a lack of confidence. If this is connected to lying, it is usually in the case of an 'off the cuff' lie, or if the person lacks confidence in what they are saying; which I suppose is often a lie.

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