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		_wiv7 on Dec 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eye Contact On the other hand, the stock photo on that page is a good example of somewhere the French don't make eye contact -- on the Metro. I am told it has something to do with the fact that you don't have a choice in being there, so people want the illusion of privacy.

joss82 on Dec 20, 2009 [–]

It may has to do with adaptation in human behavior when others enters their "personal space", in a crowded metro train, for example.

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