While reading my TESL lesson tonight, I read this and I quite agree: Direct eye contact also can increase our ability to persuade. People are less likely to turn down a request from someone with whom they make eye contact than with someone who averts their eyes. Eye contact establishes a relationship and promises trust. Eye contact expresses other things as well. It can communicate interest and attention in what someone is saying, or it can reveal emotions. An intense stare can communicate affection, anger, or fear, while less intense eye contact can reflect care and concern. Communication scholar Dr. Roel Vertegaal, of Queens University, has found evidence to suggest a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communications. He found that frequent eye contact appears to increase the number of times a person will participate when he or she is part of a group conversation. Vertegaals further studies are seeking to determine what type of gaze (looking at a persons eyes and face) is required to have this effect. Vertegaals study may have strong implications on the use of teleconferencing and conversations through the use of video cameras and whether or not true eye contact can be made through a video screen.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:30:43 +0000
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