Based on the paragraph, if the topic is eye contact, what can you imply is the controlling idea? Eye contact, also referred to as gaze, is how—and how much—we look at people with whom we are communicating. Its presence shows that we are paying attention. In addition, how we look at a person reveals a range of emotions such as affection, anger, or fear. Moreover, intensity of eye contact may also be used to show dominance. For instance, we talk of someone “staring another person down.” Finally, through our eye contact we can check the effect of our communication. By maintaining our eye contact, we can tell when or whether people are paying attention to us, when people are involved in what we are saying, and what their feelings are about what we are saying.