Locking eyes with a stranger across the room can easily be marginalized as an occurrence, which only holds weight in half baked romantic comedies. This particular sentiment could not be further from the truth, as gaze and gaze direction plays an integral role in our non-verbal communications with other humans. The reaction of an individual to eye contact or gaze usually depends on the mutuality of the eye contact, such as in positive cases involving sexual of personal interest, or negative cases which someone is glaring or starring with aggression at an individual(Macrae, C.N., Hood, B.M., Milne, A.B., Rowe, A.C., Mason, M.F.,(2002). Being that messages communicated through eye contact and gaze tend to pertain to our survival, and reproduction, humans are extremely aware of the gaze of others (Macrae, C.N., Hood, B.M., Milne, A.B., Rowe, A.C., Mason, M.F.,(2002)
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One of these processes was conducted as a study in which fifty two male and female undergraduate students at the University of Bern, where shown a facial stimulus and had to indicate on an Aluminum bar exactly where the gaze was directed. Researchers and Technicians on the opposing side of the bar would then record exact measurements, in order to determine the accuracy of the individuals observed location of the stimulus in relation to where the stimulus was actually facing(Lobanmair, J.S., Hartmann, M,. Volz, A.J., Mast, F.W.,
One of these processes was conducted as a study in which fifty two male and female undergraduate students at the University of Bern, where shown a facial stimulus and had to indicate on an Aluminum bar exactly where the gaze was directed. Researchers and Technicians on the opposing side of the bar would then record exact measurements, in order to determine the accuracy of the individuals observed location of the stimulus in relation to where the stimulus was actually facing(Lobanmair, J.S., Hartmann, M,. Volz, A.J., Mast, F.W.,