How do we know we’ve made eye contact, even from a distance?

Yep, there's definite eye contact … Jesse Eisenberg in The Double. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

What is it that makes us know we’ve made eye contact with someone and that they are not looking just past your eyes, even when they are far away?

Giorgia McAllister, London E2

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