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=== Eye contact === | === Eye contact === | ||
Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. More dominant people keep eye contact when they speak, more dominant people look away when someone else speaks (they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking). | Another simple dominance signal is eye contact. More dominant people keep eye contact when they speak, and more dominant people look away when someone else speaks (they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking). | ||
Less dominant people look away, perhaps out of fear of being judged for asserting higher status or confidence than they feel they deserve. | Less dominant people look away when they speak, perhaps out of fear of being judged for asserting higher status or confidence than they feel they have or deserve. | ||
This can be measured by the Visual Dominance Ratio defined as VDR = (% eye contact while speaking) / (% eye contact while listening). | This can be measured by the Visual Dominance Ratio defined as VDR = (% eye contact while speaking) / (% eye contact while listening). | ||
Dominance positively correlates with eye contact during speaking and negatively with eye contact during listening. | Dominance positively correlates with eye contact during speaking and negatively with eye contact during listening. | ||
Dividing the | Dividing the twho terms cancels out differences in individual propensity for holding eye contact and combines both in one number.<ref>https://books.google.com/books/about/Subliminal.html?id=V7wt3Sqj_X8C</ref> | ||
Being more dominant, increases the denominator and decreases the nominator, hence increases the ratio. | |||
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