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Do you have a tendency to look at a particular eye?

post #1 of 12
8/27/10 at 10:48am
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When having a conversation, I usually find myself looking at someone's left eye (my right). Does anyone know if this has psychological significance? Do any of you feel that you have the same tendency?
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post #2 of 12
8/27/10 at 4:05pm
I do. The brown eye.
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post #3 of 12
8/27/10 at 4:44pm
Where's the short eyes option?
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post #4 of 12
8/27/10 at 4:45pm
i tend not to look at either eye
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post #5 of 12
8/27/10 at 4:46pm
I generally look at their feet or legs, just to make sure they don't have an eye down there. You can't be too careful.
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post #6 of 12
8/27/10 at 6:56pm
Quit doing that. You make people think they have eye boogers.
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post #7 of 12
8/27/10 at 7:11pm
I look at their mouth 'cause I'm half deaf and use sentence context + lip reading to understand everything. 1 on 1 in a quiet environment I look in the eye.

What weirds me out is when people have a dead eye or something and you spend a few seconds noticing it and realizing oh shit look at the other eye. But then you can't not look at the dead one staring off some random direction.
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post #8 of 12
8/27/10 at 7:18pm
My fiance was born without a pupil and has no vision in her right eye -- just a prosthetic resin cap over all the scar tissue from multiple failed surgeries.

So I always look at her left eye.
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post #9 of 12
8/27/10 at 8:42pm
i always look at peoples teeth i have no idea why but my eyes are just drawn there
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post #10 of 12
8/28/10 at 10:00am
Forehead for me.
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post #11 of 12
8/28/10 at 10:33am
If I'm close enough to focus on one eye, or the person is cross-eyed, I just focus on the spot above their nose, right between their eyes. A person can't tell which eye you're looking at if you look at that spot. Their dominant eye (typically the same as their dominant hand) will think you're looking at it.
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post #12 of 12
8/28/10 at 10:36am
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So it appears that few people here actually look people straight in the eye... I thought maintaining eye contact is the first law that a good conversationalist abides by.
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