When you have heightened emotional sensitivity for a person (e.g. crushing on them), eye contact can feel particularly intense. We can also feel that our emotions are showing in our faces and that makes us embarrassed.
This means they aren't interested in you, at all. This sign of eye contact means that the person is consciously making an effort to avoid looking at you. This can mean that the person is least interested in you and is doing everything in their power to avoid any romantic relationship.
Maintain eye contact.
Normal eye contact lasts for about three seconds. However, if you can hold your crush's gaze for four and a half seconds, they'll get a powerful cue that you're flirting with them. You can even hold it longer, if you like, as long as your crush doesn't look away.
Can avoiding eye contact mean attraction? Yes, avoiding eye contact can be a pretty good sign that a person is into you. For instance, you are in a crowded place, and you notice someone gazing at you, but as soon as your eyes meet, they look away. After some time, you may catch them looking at you again.
Avoiding eye contact is also common in people with social anxiety as it raises their anxiety levels. Avoidance of eye contact is associated with shame, embarrassment, and self-consciousness, things people with heightened anxiety suffer from.
If a girl avoids eye contact with you, it can indicate that she's interested in you or not. Also, it might mean that she avoids eye contact generally with people or doesn't want a conversation with you. Regardless of the reason, checking her body language and talking to her might tell you why she avoids eye contact.
Actually, science has proven it so! Certain chemicals (or endorphins) that produce the emotion of love can be emitted through emotions expressed in the eyes. There are physiological changes in the eyes that occur when love is expressed between two individuals.
The further away you are, the less likely that your crush will notice you staring. This is especially true in public places where there are a lot of other people around. Try to keep an eye on them from a distance so that they don't notice that you're watching them.
3. He likes you. Avoiding eye contact is a sign of attraction, as we have already discussed early on. When a guy avoids establishing eye contact, it could be because he likes you or has a crush on you.
It means that she likes you but is too shy to show it. If a girl really likes you or the way you look, looking into her eyes will give that away. If she's confident she look back at you and smile. But if she's shy she'll look down or away to hide her feelings.
It is not necessarily true that men intentionally avoid eye contact with a woman they like. Some men may feel nervous or shy in the presence of a woman they are attracted to, and as a result, they may avoid eye contact as a way to cope with these feelings.
Combined ratings from the 28 participants showed that the eyes really do provide a strong signal of emotional state. People consistently matched the eye expressions with the corresponding basic emotion, rating “fear” as a strong match for the fear eye expression, for example.
Notice if they look for attention.
Someone who likes you may do something to have you notice them. Watch if they talk louder when you're nearby, or starts laughing with their friends when you're around. They may not talk to you on a social website, but they'll "like" a bunch of things you do online.
Signs you just like the attention
If you're only talking to them for attention, Wood says you might notice the following red flags: You feel anxious without their time or attention. You're emotionally unavailable, and you keep your guard up. You don't know much about them beyond the surface (and you don't care to).
Watch for clues that she is trying to avoid you.
If she avoids or finds excuses to get out of time that you would otherwise share together, she probably doesn't like you. If she was thinking about how she liked you she would probably be making excuses to be around you more, not the other way around.
Make eye contact with him.
Even if you're shy, try extra hard to look into his eyes while you're speaking with him. This will show that you're engaged and really listening to what he has to say. Listening to him, and showing that you're interested, is an easy way to flirt without making it extremely obvious.