### contact:

Eye contact
* Looks at person when talking or listening.
* can also intensify the experience between loving partners.
* can cause irritation
  - mild irritation
  - moderate to high irritation
  - redness and itching as well as swelling of eye lids
  - severe burns and permanent damage
* can cause severe irritation and burns leading to permanent damage
  - or burns
  - irritation, Redness, tearing, and blurred vision
  - differ dramatically between countries
  - maintain, yield, deny and request communication between people
  - result in severe burns
* causes conversations
  - severe damage, including blindness
  - tearing, pain, and blurring
  - temporary irritation
* conveys the feeling of direct communication.
* critical form of body language.
* develops early in children.
* facilitates direct communication.
* focusing skill and helps any child process instructions.
* forces the recognition of another human being.
* has far broader effects.
* helps communication.
* indicates a desire for communication, feedback and friendliness.
* is also a means of showing dominance
  - an important skill to develop
  - different from culture to culture
  - one of the ways order is kept in a wolf pack
* is an aid to social interaction
  - anti-depressant
* is an important channel of interpersonal communication
  - part of the videoconferencing experience
* is another major channel of nonverbal communication
  - way in which people can express a range of feelings
  - considered essential when greeting someone
  - especially important in signalling changes in ongoing interactions
  - essential to building rapport with someone
  - extremely important to communication
  - for actors afraid to stand on their own
* is important at all times
  - for two reasons
* is important in encouraging participant involvement
  - establishing trustworthiness
  - good communications
  - keeping an audience engaged
* is important when shaking someone s hand
  - teaching
  - made with everyone
  - more aversive to a child with fragile X syndrome than to autistic students
  - one of the most primitive and primal attractions among mammals
  - probably the most important nonverbal communicator after smiling
  - reflective of being assertive and self-confident
* is the dominant feature in nonverbal communications
  - foundation of better focus and clearness in our speech
  - most common initiation of interest by a member of the opposite sex
  - very important, as is pronunciation and enunciation
  - visual communication
  - watching
* learned reaction.
* makes people feel invested.
* means entirely different things to dogs and people
  - of communication and also helps to gauge students' reactions
* mediates the effect of personal space.
* opens the channel of communications between people.
* powerfully persuasive tool of body language.
* results in severe pain, blurred vision and possible blindness.
* serves an important role in maintaining and initiating conversation.
* signals the ears are tuned in.
* travels great distances.

Human contact
* is an essential part of successful business or entertainment.
* is an important element in Latin relationships of all types
  - of telephone communications
  - emotional contact

Interpersonal contact
* are part of how it all works.
* is through telecommunications technology.

Liquid contact
* can cause frostbite
  - produce irritation of the eyes or skin with blistering and eczema
* causes frostbite.

Physical contact
* helps reduce feelings of separation and isolation.
* intensifies dramatically during breeding season.
* is an important part of communication
  - another method of prairie dog communication
  - common and functions as a positive rein- forcement of the social order
  - important to family bonds
  - one of the strongest kinds of human communication
  - touch
* leads to emotional contact.