Watch me closely!

The feeling of being watched makes people act more honestly, even if the eyes are not real, a british study suggests. Hm what a suprise one may snigger at this statement - hollywood best teaches us how the betraying flamboyant can never look into his girls eyes, which she of course realizes ending up in hours of suffering and tear-full speculations with her intimate girl-friends about the mean male world and its desires...

Fact is that in the study people were 2.76 times more "honest".

"Although it was just a photocopied black and white poster, we know that people's brains are set up to process faces and eyes, and that is probably because it is very important for us to know if we are being watched by other people."
"It does raise the possibility that you could get people to behave more co-operatively or pro-socially by putting up pictures of eyes," says Dr Bateson.
(BBC Today)

hmm how intersting, if we think about how the glance of a virtual pet might as well generate certain human behavior - something which probably just works if the virtual thingie owns the respect of the person or is even considered as something more human likish

We all should have listened to Humphrey Bogart's wrongly pronounced most famous Casablanca phrase "Here's looking at you, kid" or the german (even more incorrect but famous):

"Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines."