Greetings

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Eye greeting is a technical term in human ethology . It describes “one of the universal behavioral patterns of expression ” in humans, a non-verbal signal that is “unconsciously processed” by the person greeted in this way. Since this form of communication has been documented in very different cultures, it is classified as innate by human ethologists . The term eyebrow flash was the end of the 1960s by Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt in the Behavioral Biology introduced.

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With a greeting, people at a distance, but not too great, can be considered: After making eye contact , the eyebrows are quickly raised for about a sixth of a second and then lowered again. "The behavior is accompanied by other action items: A short, jerky raising the head it goes ahead, with the brewing lifting a spreading smile , and often nods the person then." This Eibl-Eibesfeldt as distance greeting -ranked sequence of facial expressions of the people was only recognized during the analysis of several dozen slow-motion recordings that had been filmed by employees of the Eibl-Eibesfeldt research group in Central Europe, Africa and Asia.

Although, according to Eibl-Eibesfeldt, it is a universal, rather stereotypical pattern of expression, he also identified various, apparently culturally-related differences: In Europe, good acquaintances and friends are greeted in this way, in Samoa, on the other hand, the eye greeting applies anyone. In Japan, on the other hand, it is rarely observed among adults, since this change in facial expressions is considered offensive; in the communication from adults to small children it is also common in Japan. “In Samoa, this symbol also expresses factual approval and accompanies the verbal yes, occasionally it replaces this. We only do this with joyful approval. ” Eibl-Eibesfeldt suspects the evolutionary-biological origin of the greeting in a ritualized expression of joyful recognition.

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Wiktionary: eye greeting  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt : Outline of Comparative Behavioral Research. 7th edition. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1967, p. 693, ISBN 3-492-03074-2 .
  2. ↑ Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: On the ethology of human greeting behavior. I. Observations on Balinese, Papuans, and Samoans along with comparative remarks. In: Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie . Volume 25, No. 6, 1968, pp. 727-744, doi: 10.1111 / j.1439-0310.1968.tb00041.x .
  3. ↑ Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: The biology of human behavior. Outline of human ethology. Piper, Munich 1984. Cited here from the new edition by Seehamer Verlag, Weyarn 1997, p. 636, ISBN 3-932131-34-7 .