Eye Contact

MiddleMan

I made a conscious effort to make eye contact as much as possible on the way to work today. While I was waiting for the train, I made eye contact with a pretty good-looking woman. She held it for a second before looking away. I noticed that she would turn and look at me over her shoulder a couple times after that. She was playing with her hair, too. 

This is fun! Maybe this should go over in the IOI thread....

CartB4Horse

Eye contact is HUGE!  Since I've been looking at my wife in the eye she has started to look back longer before she breaks the gaze and looks away.  We are communicating without saying anything.  It feels good.

Lothbrok

my wife loves the danel craig in the James Bond movies. And since one of my monkeys this month is body language I have been watching his movies and taking notice of his posture and eye contact. There is a great video on YouTube pionting out his body language when he first meets Vespa on the train. Funny thing is if you look at danel craig he is not that good looking but he dresses well is in shape and has perfect body language.  

fordsvt

I make huge effort with eye contact with her. It's making a difference I believe. It shows interest connection and full attention. Daniel Craig is an excellent example. 

Jek

I rarely make eye contact with someone that I have no need to interact with.  I could not care less if a woman looks at me, if I have no intention of pursuing her.  I see no point to eye contact with a man/woman that is serving me a coffee. And idgaf if someone on the street decides that I am a "worthy threat" that deems it necessary to try to win a eye contact war with.  
I do engage in eye contact in situations that are getting me what I want and where I want to go.  Anything else is wasted energy.

EANx

I'm not in the habit of engaging in juvenile staring battles but I feel that looking people in the eye has many benefits. In a server / customer relationship, it tells the server that the customer recognizes them as a person and understands that their food/drink doesn't just magically appear, delivered by elves. Ever since I've made the conscious effort to look servers in the eye and say, service at places I frequent has gone way up.

Looking people in the eye takes little energy and typically has great benefits. I fail to see a good reason not to do so (when culturally appropriate).