{"id":127541,"date":"2021-09-11T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/making-and-breaking-eye-contact-makes-conversation-more-engaging"},"modified":"2021-09-11T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:22:16","slug":"making-and-breaking-eye-contact-makes-conversation-more-engaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/making-and-breaking-eye-contact-makes-conversation-more-engaging","title":{"rendered":"Making And Breaking Eye Contact Makes Conversation More Engaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-and-breaking-eye-contact-makes-conversation-more-engaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, consider that some people with medical conditions may not be comfortable making eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, it has been assumed that eye contact creates synchrony, but our findings suggest that it\u2019s not that simple,\u201d says senior author Thalia Wheatley, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth, and principal investigator of the Dartmouth Social Systems Laboratory.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Study reveals a correlation between instances of eye contact and higher levels of engagement during conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Dartmouth College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Making eye contact repeatedly when you\u2019re talking to someone is common, but why do we do it? When two people are having a conversation, eye contact occurs during moments of \u201cshared attention\u201d when both people are engaged, with their pupils dilating in synchrony as a result, according to a Dartmouth study published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEye contact is really immersive and powerful,\u201d says lead author Sophie Wohltjen, a graduate student in psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/making-and-breaking-eye-contact-makes-conversation-more-engaging\">Continue reading \u201cMaking And Breaking Eye Contact Makes Conversation More Engaging\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, consider that some people with medical conditions may not be comfortable making eye contact. \u201cIn the past, it has been assumed that eye contact creates synchrony, but our findings suggest that it\u2019s not that simple,\u201d says senior author Thalia Wheatley, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth, and principal investigator of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}