2006-12-15 21:26:17 · 6 answers · asked by confused 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
i agree it is fight or flight. if you make eye contact it is a challenge for walking space. i use it for agressive crowd navigation, works very well.
2006-12-16 01:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by BuddhaDaddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're looking down, people may not understand your intentions, but when you look ahead, people can see where you are trying to go and will get out of your way.
2006-12-16 07:31:04 · answer #2 · answered by JenV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's indirect communication. When you walk with your head down, it looks like you don't carry yourself well, you're trying to be unnoticed, not really caring, along those lines. The same person looking straight ahead of them is more intimidating, the complete opposite. It's instinctive.
2006-12-16 05:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by timvansickel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, eye to eye contact is a primal method of measuring up how "threatening" the other person can be.
While you aren't intentionally intimidating them, it happens on a subconcious level. It is primitive fight-or-flight mechanism that is built into us, and is subconcious.
They don't even realize what is taking place because it is entirely subconcious.
2006-12-16 05:34:40 · answer #4 · answered by Simba 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
simba is totally correct , here.
people look where they are going. if someone is looking down no one else can tell where the person is going (and is going 'down' literally). if someone around you was 'going down' would you want to be a part of it or move out of the way? all this is going on subconsciously and simultaneously.
2006-12-16 07:41:30 · answer #5 · answered by craina c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are trying to teach you to look up by running into you and not moving out of your way
2006-12-16 05:37:35 · answer #6 · answered by jay m 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋