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People Are Not Great at Recognizing Flirting -- Science of Us

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So says a recent study.

Photo: Mark Andersen/Rubberball/Corbis Most women have probably experienced being friendly around a man, only to have it be misinterpreted as flirtatiousness. Simple signals of interest in a conversation — smiling, laughing, being interested in a conversation — are all somehow perceived as come-ons. Straight men, research has found, are a lot more likely than straight women to fool themselves into thinking someone is romantically interested in them when they aren’t. Related Stories Why Do Men and Women Get Jealous About Different Things? It Pays to Be Overconfident, Even When You Have No Idea

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