She said eye contact is not only relevant to interpersonal contact, but to the workplace as well. Tilcock also discussed the relationship between eye contact and attention. Another topic related to eye contact is gender. I'm not really sure why. Psychology Professor Richard A. Lippa, who studies gender, said women do show more eye contact than men.
Women do display more eye contact during social interaction than men do.
Lippa said two central messages of eye contact are intimacy and liking, and power and dominance. He said intimacy and liking may help explain women's greater eye contact over men. Lippa said another way eye contact is related to intimacy is through flirting. So certainly eye contact is used for flirting and intimate relations too. The second message of eye contact, according to Lippa, is power and dominance.