When Did You Last Share a Gaze With Someone for More Than a Few Seconds?
A recent study found that extended bouts of eye contact could trigger “dissociative symptoms, dysmorphic face perceptions, and hallucination-like strange-face apparitions.” Sounds like a fun experiment to try at home, right? Maybe—if you can stomach ten minutes of direct eye contact. For the study, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo had 20 people stare into one another’s…
