Humans are terrible at detecting
flirting. That’s the conclusion drawn by researchers
from the
University of Kansas. They paired up
52 college women and 52 college men, sat them
in a room, and told them to talk for ten
minutes. At the end of it, participants were
individually asked if they believed that their partner was
flirting. Men and women were very good at detecting
when
someone wasn’t flirting, but
terrible otherwise. Men correctly detected flirtatious
behaviour only
36% of the time. Women fared even
worse, with only an abysmal 18% detecting a
flirting partner. According to Jeffrey Hall, the lead
researcher, it’s probably because most people don’t
expect flirtatious behaviour most of the
time.
Well this is interesting. I would think the numbers would be better for both genders. Very interesting.
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