Social anxiety disorder is associated with reduced eye contact during conversation primed for conflict - Langer JK, Lim MH, Fernandez KC, Rodebaugh TL.

Eye contact is important for successful social interactions (e.g., Dalton et al. in Nat Neurosci 8:519-526, 2005. doi:10.1038/nn1421), suggesting that gaze avoidance could be damaging for social functioning. Gaze avoidance has been proposed to relate to hi...
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