Look, gaze or glare
Have you ever heard the phrase "Eyes are the mirror of the soul"? Sure you have, that is rather famous phrase and is used by everyone. There is no smoke without a fire, and so this phrase couldn't appear from nowhere without any reasons for such statement. Eyes are the mirrors of our souls as they reflect the feelings we have, those feelings we try to hide from everyone. I bet that at least once in your life you saw the situation when a person smiles but his or her eyes remains sad and the smile you see doesn't tell you that a person is happy, but does tell you that some inner pain disturbs the person and that the pain is so strong that your opponent tries to hide it but fails to do that.
As studying the character at which people look to each other the psychologists came to conclusion that all the nations of the world may be divided into two groups according to the culture of the eye-look. Those groups are the group of sociable and non-sociable nations. Nations that belong to the first groups are the nations according to the culture of which one should look right in the eyes of his opponent during a conversation. In case if a person that belongs to the sociable nation hides his or her eyes it will signify that person hides something and is not candour in his words or deeds.
The representatives of the non-sociable nations in counter consider the stray look in one's eyes and lasted meeting of somebody's eyes as a sign of aggression, brutality and disrespect. For example, if you are talking to a Japanese person and look straight in his eyes you will offend his feelings and display your aggression against him. It is so, as according to the rules of Japanese culture it's not allowed to look in somebody's eyes. As you are talking to a Japanese person and fix your eyen upon his neck a bit lower the chin you will show in that way that you respect this person and treat him or her good.
There are some tribes that have the entire system of an eye-look culture. According to the culture of one tribe it is necessary to perform further actions during talking to certain people: if it is a conversation between the worker and the employer they have to look opposite sides, otherwise it will be braking of the rules of the culture of a communication. According to the culture of another tribes a person, who speaks in public, may not speak with his face to audience. The rules of that tribe states that while talking to a great number of people the speaker has to talk with his face to his shuck, otherwise no one would listen to him.
As you can see many men many minds many cultures of the look. One should consider the cultural peculiarities of every nation in order not to provoke the conflict and not to offend one's feelings. As for the psychological point of view the eye-look is a means of connection between interlocutors. The last researches proves that if people sit next to each other while talking they don't look at each other too often, but if you will remote them from each other the looks will become more frequent.
Moreover, the eye-look gives additional information. For example, as the speaker wants to finish his talk he downs his eyes and then raises it as a signal that the speech is over. The eye-contact is also a mean to define the leader. People look in each other's eyes and in some time the one who is weaker in his character downs the eyes, so it is become clear that he is weaker and his opponent feel the superiority and becomes predominant in the conversation and the further relationships.