Why is eye contact so difficult for an extended period of time?

Why is eye contact so difficult for an extended period of time?

Eye contact is important while speaking to someone, yet it seems to be so difficult for many of us.

It turns out that eye contact is taxing for our brains to do for an extended period of time.

When speaking to someone, eye contact helps to build trust and it is important when having a serious conversation or when dating.

While there are definitely social advantages to eye contact, according to an article in the blog pocket worthy, most humans are not very good at it.

Research shows that adults make eye contact 30 to 60 percent of the time in a conversation, but experts say that people should actually be making eye contact 60 to 70 percent of the time if they are hoping to get anything out of it. Avoiding eye contact, it seems, is unavoidable.

Researchers at Kyoto University studied this in 2016 in published their findings in the Journal of Cognition in 2016.

Check out this interesting article

Maintaining Eye Contact While Talking Overwhelms the Brain

Research indicates that eye contact, while powerful, is quite taxing on our brains.
by Sarah Sloat

To humans, eye contact is everything. From infancy onward, humans look to the gaze of others to try to gauge their emotions and thereby determine what those emotions say about their relationship. Yet, despite the social advantages we can gain by looking into someone eyes, we are pretty bad at doing it consistently: Research shows that adults make eye contact 30 to 60 percent of the time in a conversation, but experts say that people should actually be making eye contact 60 to 70 percent of the time if they are hoping to get anything out of it. Avoiding eye contact, it seems, is unavoidable.

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