It's not just the eyes saying, it's your facial expressions that combine to deliver a message. It's not just that, our brains are trained to pick up these social cues as well. read more
And as to how our eyes say so much, since the time we were babies, any activities that involve interacting with people, the first thing a baby looks into are the eyes. And this applies to adults as well. Eyes are the most focused part of anyone and hence we register expressions of the eyes more than any other part of the body. read more
People say that the eyes are a "window to the soul" - that they can tell us much about a person just by gazing into them. Given that we cannot, for example, control the size of our pupils, body language experts can deduce much of a person's state by factors relating to the eyes. read more