6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone | Cracked.com

6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone | Cracked.com

#4. You Can Tell Their Political Views by Their Eyes

Granted, most of the time you know somebody's political leanings because they will goddamn tell you. But not everybody broadcasts their beliefs via shouted slogans and bumper stickers.


Some of us prefer to start loud political arguments in the middle of crowded restaurants.
Fortunately, it turns out that there are subtle clues that indicate if a person is liberal or conservative -- you just have to know what to look for.
How? Tell Me!
And by "look" we literally mean "look," because eye contact is actually a great indicator

The enlarged cornea means this person is extremely concerned with the deficit.
Researchers have found that during conversations, left-leaning people were more likely to follow the other person's "eye cues" than conservatives. Let's say you are having a conversation with someone and you suddenly take your gaze off them to look at something slightly to the right, say a cute person or a passing zebra. Liberals are more likely to follow your gaze and look as well, even if what you are looking at has no bearing on the conversation. If you look away again, they will follow your gaze again, and so on and so on, like two little puppies distracted by shiny passing balloons.

Statistically speaking, about half of you just glanced up at the ceiling.
Conservatives are almost never going to follow your gaze, but will continue looking straight at you, like robots. Those conducting the study speculated that conservatives held their gaze because, no lie, they don't like being told what to do.


"I reflexively reject the opinions of others and I have no idea why."