Abstract
Amount of mutual eye contact, the time spent on gazing at each other, and speech were compared between fifteen cooperative and competitive pairs during performance of a computer bowling game. The cooperative pairs tended to look at their partners more often than did the competitive pairs. The prediction that the cooperative pairs would spend more time gazing at one another than the competitive pairs in this task situation was not supported. The frequency of individual gaze and mutual eye contact did not occur at equally high levels in competition compared with cooperation. The cooperative pairs spoke more than the competitive pairs.
