Scientists have a theory on why you break eye contact | Fox News - 1 views
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they write that eye contact actually "disrupts resources available to cognitive control processes during verb generation." In other words, when you need to come up with certain words under certain circumstances, maintaining eye contact depletes the very brain resources you need to find the word.
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but Scientific American suggests that if looking away while thinking is cross-cultural, "perhaps cultures with less emphasis on eye contact enable deeper thinking during a given conversation."
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The hypothesis that people with different culture may have different habits is very interesting. People always avoid eye contact with unfamiliar people. Probably in our nature, we think that making eye contact is an action of provocation. When I am speaking, I seldom make eye contact with others and eye contacts make me nervous and I sometimes feel that my brain was shut down and couldn't come up with a word. I feel like the primitive human nature still plays a huge role on our brain and reaction. --Sissi (12/31/2016)