From: LiveScience
In the Game of Love, Self-Deception May Be Key
December 15, 2011
LiveScience:
Hot guys tend to underestimate women’s interest in them, while other men, particularly those looking for a one-night stand, are more likely to think a woman is much more into them than she actually is, a new study says.
Women, however, showed the opposite bias — they routinely underestimated men’s interest in them.
This sort of self-deception may help both men and women play the mating game successfully, suggest the researchers, a team of psychologists from the University of Texas, Austin. The findings also fits with past research showing that guys are clueless on the subtleties of nonverbal cues from women, taking a subtle smile as a sexual come-on, for instance.
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