Gaze and eye-contact with anorexic adolescents.

Interviews with seven anorexic female adolescents and 12 control subjects were videotaped for analysis of visual behaviour. Individual looking and mutual gaze of subject and interviewer were coded by two judges and recorded through a two-channel push-button system of time recording for 10 min of interview segments. The results indicated that anorexics looked toward the eyes of the interviewer less frequently and more briefly than controls, and that mutual gazing was less common.