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The reason you like gazing into your lover’s eyes may be because you used to gaze into your mother’s eyes when you were an infant, since this released a comforting brain hormone, which is also stimulated by touches and hugs. And what if those eyes you’re gazing into are blue?

Researchers have learned that the brain chemical oxytocin is released through touch between mother-infant and male-female pair bonds. It is released during hugging and pleasant physical touch, and may actually change the brain in a way that helps human social behavior.
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We’ve reported before on how important eyes can be. It turns out that the way we use our eyes can give people in the know information about what we?re are thinking, whether we?re paying attention, and whether or not we are telling a lie.

Ker Than reports in LiveScience.com that biologists study this by observing primates. Michael Tomasello, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied the reactions to certain head and eye movements made by a human researcher in a group of great apes, consisting of 11 chimpanzees, four gorillas and four bonobos, as compared to a group of 40 human infants (and no, they did not react the same way).
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Researchers have discovered that people who think they are being watched are more honest?even if the eyes watching them don’t belong to a real person. Now scientists say that the fact that someone is NOT watching you DOES NOT mean that they aren’t hanging onto your every word.
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