Eye Contact Influences Child Anxiety
(WorldNews Environment)

Adults use eye contact to obtain social cues to help determine the emotions of others. We then use this knowledge to make decisions on how we react to the other person. However, eye contact is often not established when an adult is anxious. While the adult responses to eye contact are well established, little is known about eye gazing patterns in children. Accordingly, a new study investigated how children use eye contact and the consequences which result from the behavior. University of California, Riverside researchers discovered that anxious children tend to avoid making eye contact, and this has consequences for how they experience fear. The shorter and less frequently they...