I've know this for years! (eye contact)

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"Pupils 'must look away to think' "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4602178.stm

"...So when we are trying to concentrate and process something else that's mentally demanding, it's unhelpful to look at faces."


I have long known that if I want to concentrate on thinking, shutting my eyes can be very useful.

Now, to be wicked, does it mean at parties, with all that eye-contact, very little thinking is going on? (The inability to use two particular organs at once has long been held against males).

LOL. Christ, it's the inability to use two brain cells simultaneously with some males!

Aside from that rather sweeping statement, indeed, it seems fairly obvious that it is easier to think when you're not having to process shed-loads of visual stimuli such as you get when looking at someone's face.

Robin

I still look away when answering a question and I am 42 year old. Averting My eyes when answering just seem natural to Me.