Eye Accessing Cues
Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
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What is Eye Accessing Cues? Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic. Coaching, interviewing — as one signal among many, never alone.
Bandler & Grinder, 1970s; mixed empirical support.
Coaching, interviewing — as one signal among many, never alone.
Treat as a hypothesis, not a diagnosis. Always corroborate with content and calibration.
Use the model. Pick the move.
Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic. You've just seen this: Bandler & Grinder, 1970s; mixed empirical support. Which lever does the model recommend?
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The full taxonomy entry
Every concept in the Atlas uses the same structure — so Eye Accessing Cues can be compared, recombined, and cited like an element on a periodic table.
- Business
- Leadership
- Government
- Healthcare
- Education
- Sales
- Marketing
- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
- Where in our org would Eye Accessing Cues most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards Eye Accessing Cues?
- If we removed every payoff for Eye Accessing Cues, what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when Eye Accessing Cues persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of eye accessing cues.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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See Eye Accessing Cues through 4 lenses
Each layer of the Incentives OS reframes this concept with its own thinkers, vocabulary, and diagnostic question.
- Layer 15AI & Alignment
What proxy reward is the AI optimizing — and what is it ignoring?
- Layer 17Information Theory
What is signal here — and what is noise being treated as signal?
- Layer 18Temporal Models
What happens if this incentive compounds for ten years?
- Layer 21Mental Models & Mastery
Which model — or stack of models — are we missing here?
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When you encounter Eye Accessing Cues, your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
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