Maintaining eye contact can sometimes be difficult for autistic folks. Practice and therapy can help, but they’re not the only way to build relationships. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a term used ...

In the United States, there's one specific gesture that's deeply embedded in social interactions. From an early age, parents and teachers instruct children to look people in the eyes when speaking to ...

A new study is casting doubt on the idea that maintaining eye contact is the best way to get ahead in life. Writing in the journal Psychological Science, a group of psychologists described a number of ...

When you have eye contact anxiety, you know the dreaded feeling: as soon as someone pulls you in for a conversation, your heart kicks, and—despite knowing you shouldn't—immediately dart your eyes to ...

If the title of this article caught your eye, that's a good start—it might even help you reflect on where your eyes typically focus and where they don’t. Eye contact, once a cornerstone of human ...

Eye contact is a critical part of communication—in showing respect, engagement, trustworthiness, and confidence—and building relationships. Yet kids are getting worse at it, according to a nationally ...

SHANGHAI — “Never looked at any person’s face.” That’s how Leo Kanner first described children with autism in 1943, establishing a diagnostic marker that has persisted for eight decades. Ask almost ...