Why do people avoid making eye contact in elevators?
Strangers invent silence when distance disappears.
People avoid eye contact in elevators because close proximity creates social awkwardness and invisible etiquette.
Everyone enters.
Everyone becomes interested in the floor numbers.
The hidden mechanism is elevator psychology.
Humans need personal space.
Elevators remove it temporarily.
Silence restores balance.
People think elevator etiquette is taught.
Very often, it evolves naturally.
