%0 Journal Article
%T Contact Is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Eye Contact Illusion
%A Craig P. Speelman
%A Melissa Longmuir
%A Oliver Guidetti
%A Ruben Phillips
%A Shane L. Rogers
%J Perception
%@ 1468-4233
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0301006619827486
%X In a simple experiment, we demonstrate that you don¡¯t need to mindfully look at the eyes of your audience to be perceived as making eye contact during face-to-face conversation. Simply gazing somewhere around the face/head area will suffice. Or to borrow a term from Mareschal and colleagues, direct gaze will suffice. For those readers who experience anxiety when gazing specifically at another person¡¯s eyes, or when being gazed at, we expect this is welcome news
%K eye contact
%K illusion
%K eye tracking
%K conversation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0301006619827486