Your Eyes Don’t Lie

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

If you want to know what someone is really thinking you watch their eyes. Here’s a quick and dirty guide on what people’s eyes are revealing:

Straight Eye contact. Consistent eye contact is a sign that the person is interested in the conversation. Prolonged eye contact can mean that the person is trying to intimidate and/or may not trust you. Brief eye contact indicates that the person is anxious and/or not interested in the conversation. While a total lack of eye contact shows great disinterest in the conversation.

Eyes looking straight up. Rolling the eyes upward is a gesture that often indicates contempt, sarcasm, boredom, or annoyance.

Eyes to the Upper Right. Someone who is looking up to their right right is visualizing a remembered image in their mind.

Eyes to the Upper Left. When you see someones eyes move quickly to their up-left they are constructing images in their head. A person looking up-left is using their imagination to put a picture together in their mind.

Eyes to the Right. When someone moves their eyes to their right they are recalling sounds from their memory.

Eyes Left. People construct sounds when they look to their left.

Eyes Down and Right. A person looking down-right has internal dialog going on in their head. They may talking to themselves, reciting a conversation, or thinking about what they are going to say.

Eyes Down and Left. If a person looks down-left they are thinking about how something makes them feel. If they are visibly happy then they may be thinking about the happiness that they feel.

Eyes Straight Downward. A person looking straight downward is showing that they are submissive and uncomfortable. People will often look downward when they are shy and do not wish to have a conversation.

Some People are Switched Between Left and Right. The majority of people follow these basic patterns just as most people are right-handed. However there are people who are “lefties” and with these people the left and right are reversed. So these people will look up-left when recalling visual information and down-right when thinking about emotions.

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