# Eye Contact

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987 "2016-09-15T05:04:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bazoongas55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Bazoongas55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bazoongas55)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/1 "2016-09-15T05:04:36Z")

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Do people tend to make eye contact with the opposite sex more often? For example, men making eye contact with women more than other men. I have a feeling that this is the case but can not find anything factual to back it up. I am more curious about whether this is true with strangers exchanging glances. I clarify that I mean eye contact without talking to the other person. For example, a man making eye contact with the woman he passes in the parking lot. That same man may have not made eye contact when passing another man. I find myself ignoring men and looking at women sometimes (I am male).

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**Author:** ![Bazoongas55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Bazoongas55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bazoongas55)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/2 "2016-09-17T18:09:49Z")

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I’m thinking of getting one way mirror sunglasses to test this out.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/3 "2016-09-17T23:17:39Z")

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One traditional component of “gaydar” is that straight guys make only fleeting eye contact with other men, while gay guys make significant eye contact. I’ve never heard this to be true (or untrue) of women.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/4 "2016-09-17T23:23:11Z")

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> [@Bazoongas55](#):
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> I’m thinking of getting one way mirror sunglasses to test this out.

Dude you should totally do this and then let us know how it goes. That could totally be a new way for us (as peoples) to get to know each other. As peoples.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/5 "2016-09-17T23:25:20Z")

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Girls will actively look away from me in public. Its obvious too, since I see the briefest of inadvertent eye contact, only to have them suddenly look away. It-never-fails.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-contact/765987/6 "2016-09-17T23:37:11Z")

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I’m going with ‘yes’.