In the eye contact experiment I decided to do this in a room with about six of my friends while watching the All Star game, I used my Girlfriend. I waited until everyone was focused on the game and then begin to stare at her from across the room, at first her reaction was to wave at me and smile then she started to look around to see if I was starring at someone else, then she told her best friend "I don’t know what's his problem, he is being too weird." I extended my eye contact to twenty seconds for the fun and laugh of it. After I stopped making eye contact my girl friend and her best friend moved from sitting in front of me to sitting along the side of where I was which was funny making everyone in the room shift seating. I didn’t find it difficult doing this experiment because I found it interesting that I could weird someone out just by looking at them, and that I'm always doing something to her that’s strange.
On the flip side when refusing to make eye contact with someone during a whole conversation I I decided to go with my sister who is an attention lover and likes to have a person's full attention. during another one of her stories that are "very important" I refused to make eye contact looking to the side of her and down a few times, at the beginning she would pause every few words and say " I'm over here, are you even listening to me" I could tell I was beginning to upset her. About mid way through this thirty minute divulging session my sister gets upset and grabs me by the sides of my head and says " I need you to look at me and pay attention, this is super important and I really need to vent right now." I continued to look down and say I hear you and am responding to you so just keep talking its okay. My sister about ten minutes later pushed over somethings on the table, got up and walked away mad calling me rude and stupid. This experiment was hard in the fact I had to contain myself from laughing at her because I