eye contact

a direct look exchanged between two people who are interacting. Maintaining eye contact is considered essential to communication between therapist and client during face-to-face interviews. Social psychological studies of eye contact generally find that people look more at the other person when listening to that person than when they themselves are talking; that people tend to avoid eye contact when they are embarrassed; and that the more intimate the relationship, the greater the eye contact. Also called mutual gaze.

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September 1st 2024

processor

1. in information theory, any device or system that can perform specific operations on data that have been presented to it in proper format.

2. in computer science, a computer or its principal operating part. See central processor.