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Eye Behavior

Eye Behavior. Chapter Five. Eye Behavior. The study of eye behavior, eye contact, eye movement, and the functions of eye behavior is called oculesics. Approximately 80 percent of your information about the outside world enters through the eye. Properties of Eye Behavior.

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Eye Behavior

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  1. Eye Behavior Chapter Five

  2. Eye Behavior • The study of eye behavior, eye contact, eye movement, and the functions of eye behavior is called oculesics. • Approximately 80 percent of your information about the outside world enters through the eye.

  3. Properties of Eye Behavior • Salience – the behavior of our eyes plays an extremely important role in managing our interactions, eliciting the attention of others, and communicating our interest in what others have to say • Stimulate Arousal – there is some kind of arousal when we see another person

  4. Properties of Eye Behavior • Involvement – eye contact with another virtually commands involvement with that other

  5. Functions of Eye Behavior • Scanning – one of the primary functions of our eyes. Our eyes scan, focus, and collect information about the world around us. • Establishing and Defining Relationships – Eye-to-body or eye-to-eye contact can determine whether a relationship is established and can add definition to the relationship.

  6. Functions of Eye Behavior • Eye Behavior can Oblige Us to Interact with Another Person – Interpersonal encounters usually begin with the two participants looking at one another and establishing eye contact. • Express Emotions – The eyes are a valuable source of information about emotional states.

  7. Functions of Eye Behavior • Control and Regulate our Interactions with Others – The eyes, as well as nonverbal cues, are quite effective in regulating the back-and-forth interaction between speakers and listeners. • Decrease the Physical Distance – • Close Others Out – out of a conversation • That We are in Communication – without eye contact, people do not feel they are communicating

  8. Types of Eye Behavior • Mutual Gaze – refers to two people looking in the direction of one another’s face. • One-sided Look – glance or gaze of one individual in the direction of another’s face. • Gaze Aversion – typically an intentional act. May signal that you are no longer interested in what the other person has to say.

  9. Types of Eye Behavior • Gaze Omission – where a person does not look at another person, but it is not intentional. • Civil Inattention – the elevator look. • Staring – when one focuses in on another person and gives a long, hard, often invasive and uncomfortable-feeling look.

  10. Pupil Dilation • May be a good indication of positive emotional arousal and interest in what is being observed.

  11. Eye Behavior and Individual Differences • Nature of Relationships • Cultural Differences • Contextual Differences • Personality Differences • Gender Differences

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