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Psychology says people who avoid eye contact in conversation aren’t necessarily aloof or disengaged — looking away can reduce the cognitive and emotional load of face-to-face interaction, making it easier to think clearly and stay present in what is being said

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Psychology says people who avoid eye contact in conversation aren’t necessarily aloof or disengaged — looking away can reduce the cognitive and emotional load of face-to-face interaction, making it easier to think clearly and stay present in what is being said
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A candidate in a job interview looked at the ceiling for four seconds before answering a question about her biggest professional failure. Two of the three people on the panel wrote something down. Afterwards, one of them described her as evasive.
She was doing something else entirely. She was hunting for the right words, and the three faces watching her were making that hunt harder.
Gaze aversion has a public relations problem. In most offices it reads as shifty, bored or badly raised. The resea

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