Eye contact makes people to be more honest. To such conclusion psychologists at the University of Tampere in Finland.
When we suspect that the person in talking to us is lying, they usually ask him to look straight in the eye. And it is absolutely the right tactic, as established psychologists from Finland. They found that eye contact encourages people to speak more truth and less lies. The effect of this contact, the researchers tested on a special computer game. And the results of the experiment can have a practical application for everyday life and for some professional situations, including negotiations at the highest level, as scientists believe.
People often shy away from lies when I look in the eyes, because it requires the use of large efforts to control so-called body language. For the first time researchers have evaluated the effect of eye contact on uttering falsehood. In the experiment, the participants played an interactive game on a computer with another person. First, they briefly became acquainted with his companion through the window with smart glass, and then proceeded directly to the game. The participants had to inform the opponents of the color of a circle appearing on the screen. And they were allowed to lie about this color in order to earn more points.
The game was repeated several times, and opponents had the opportunity to look into each other’s eyes through a computer screen. It turned out that eye contact, the players are much less likely to tell lies. Scientists attribute this to the fact that when a person is subjected to such close surveillance, he starts to behave more appropriate for the social conditions that way, and it excludes the truth. (READ MORE)