![]() Now what? Initial attraction was there, fine, but could long glances really blossom into feelings of love? ![]() So the man and woman in the bar looked at each other and smiled. I guess if your date or potential mate is directing a smile at anyone, it makes sense we’d like it most if that smile was directed towards us because it is that purposeful, attentive smile and stare that can spark the feeling of a connection between two people. Of interesting note, we also can find someone attractive if they are looking away from us and not smiling. They did an experiment in 2006 demonstrating that when someone smiles while directing their interest and eye contact towards us, their attractiveness is boosted, more than someone who looks at us without smiling or when someone is smiling but not looking at us. The man in the bar feels a heightened amount of attraction for a woman who is looking at him and smiling at him. The male makes his way over to the female once good eye contact has been established and returned but what would have signaled him to come over even quicker? Perhaps along with the look of love, a smile would have reassured her interest in him.īen Jones and his team knew there must be more to it than just the eyes. In other words, if someone who you find attractive locks eyes with you, they automatically go up a notch on your love barometer. This directed gaze apparently signals their interest and the fact that they find us interesting makes them even more appealing to us. Like the man in the bar, we do perceive people as more attractive when they are engaged in eye contact with us and when they shift their direction of gaze towards us as confirmed in experiments performed by Mason et al in 2005. ![]() He initially found her beautiful but now the magnetism of her prolonged eye contact has amplified her attractiveness. A man peers around the room and becomes suddenly intrigued by a woman returning his glance. Once their eyes meet if eye contact is established and a look is held, the game of love has begun. It’s dim in here but what do you see? You may see strangers exchanging glances with each other from across the crowded room. Let’s pretend it’s Friday night, you’re in a bar and you are people watching. Let’s start off this “Learning The Look of Love” series by first exploring love and eye contact. After reviewing many decades of literature and research, I have picked out a few studies that I think help us to understand how love affects our eyes and how our eyes can affect the level of attraction and love we feel for someone else. However, if you pop the following ingredients into a kettle: large pupils, long glances, and a lovely, attentive smile, you may not have concocted a bona fide love potion but your witch’s brew could contain some insight into the laws of attraction.īeing an optometrist and all around eye aficionado, I have a deep interest in the connection between the eyes and love. I hope you like it.While it might not be witchcraft, the formula for ‘love at first sight’ remains a mystery. ![]() Regardless, it is here now because I couldn't keep it unpublished any longer. Hey there! This poem's idea was given by my friend may130, and she also let me keep it on my profile! It was written over a year ago, and was kept on hold only because I couldn't decide if it needed a fourth chapter.
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