18 dating couples were compared with 18 pairs of unacquainted subjects on amount of eye contact as well as time spent in gazing at one another during performance of a computer bowling game. The dating couples spent more time gazing at one another than did unacquainted couples in this task situation. Dating couples of both sexes tended to look at their partners more often than would unacquainted couples. The prediction that women would spend more time looking at the men than men would spend looking at the women was not supported.
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