Is it necessary to see eye-to-eye of the interlocutor? Hi, everyone! I used to think that to see eye to eye with interlocutors is very important. And no matter he is your friend or stranger. It's like as expression of respect to the person and your self-confident and honesty. I agree we can see to eye with different types of our emotions - ingratiatingly, fearfully or on the contrary assertive and aggressive. But it's awesome! On the one hand by looking to eye we can read his feelings from conversation or situation, and on the other hand we send to him of ours. Which is why I always prefer see to eye. But recently I have read an article in the magazine "Perception" that the role of direct eye contact is overrated and not confirmed experimentally. The researchers talked to people on a given theme, their view fixed with the help of special glasses. In half of the cases they looked to the eyes, and in half - on the mouth. After the dialogue, the study participants had to tell how much they liked the dialogue, and the interlocutor was interested in. As it turned out, the answers to these questions didn’t depend on which part of the face of the volunteers the scientists looked at. From this, scientists conclude that as an eye-to-eye contact, a person perceives any direct look at him, even if, in fact, his eyes are not looked at. According to experts, the data will help people who do not like to look into the eyes of the interlocutor, feel more comfortable during communication, knowing that to look at his forehead or ears can be with the same effect. These results seem very strange, because as for me for example, I conversely would be wary if the other person was constantly looking at my mouth or ear. It's embarrassing me a lot. But we are very different.