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 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 perhaps because they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking.
+More dominant people keep eye contact when they speak, perhaps because they are confident of their position and do not need to fear for being judged as overconfident hence do not need to divert attention by looking at someone or something else.
-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 and in hopes to divert attention to something else but them.
+More dominant people look away when someone else speaks, perhaps because they can afford to ignore less dominant people speaking.
 This can be measured by the Visual Dominance Ratio defined as VDR = (% eye contact while speaking) / (% eye contact while listening).