Civil Inattention Research Paper

Civil inattention is defined by our textbook as “the ways in which an individual shows an awareness that another is present without making the person the object of particular attention. Eye contact is one of the ways that we, as a society, participate in civil inattention. Here in the U.S. typical eye contact is just over a second. A gaze shorter than that can come across as shy, longer than that can seem confrontational. I feel that these is definitely a difference in civil attention norms between men and women. Males tend to use eye contact to establish dominance or superiority when appraising others. They use shorter eye contact with those they feel are inferior or not worthy of their attention or longer eye contact, also known as