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Men are daft at picking up body language
This is why guys slap each other's butts?
New research to be published in the April issue of Psychological Science suggests university-aged men are more likely than their female peers to confuse friendly signals with sexual ones, and sexual ones with friendly ones.
In a Yale University and Indiana University study of 280 heterosexual, university-aged men and women, subjects were asked to arrange 280 photos of fully clothed women into four categories: friendly, sexually interested, sad or rejecting.
Men who viewed images of friendly women mistakenly labelled 12 per cent of those images as sexually interested. Women got it wrong 8.7 per cent of the time.
But both men and women fared even worse at realizing when women were sexually interested. Men mistakenly interpreted 37.8 per cent of the "sexually interested" images as "friendly," while women mislabeled about 32 per cent of those images.
So why are guys seemingly more clueless than women? Psychologists have a few hunches.
One popular theory is that young men tend to oversexualize their environment. Jordyn Marcellus, a 20-year-old University of Calgary student, agrees: "Guys tend to think, 'Oh, she's being friendly - that means she's interested,' when really maybe she's just a friendly girl."
Another theory - and the one Ms. Ferris says her research supports - suggests that women have the advantage when it comes to interpreting facial expressions and body language for a variety of emotions. Men are simply a little less adept at reading non-verbal cues such as body language and batted eyelashes.
Antonia Abbey, professor of psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, adds that socialization may play a role too.
Because men are generally expected to make the first move, they may be more prone to taking risks on the off chance a girl is interested, even if he is not sure.
"They have to be a bit bold," said Dr. Abbey, who began studying these types of gender dynamics as a graduate student in the early 1980s, after a guy at a bar kept pestering her despite her insistence that she only wanted a dance - not a relationship.
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at 12:38 on April 3rd, 2008
Rob Peters, I like this story, although I've never seen any of you guys in the office slap each other butts!
at 15:51 on April 3rd, 2008
This is just junk science.
at 17:12 on April 3rd, 2008
I never had a clue when it came to me. For others, I pick up everything
at 17:28 on April 3rd, 2008
Rob, I like this story. Although, this seems to indicate that these guys are near kindred spirits to the guys at Delta House in Animal House! I think more research is definitely needed.
at 17:47 on April 3rd, 2008
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at 22:20 on April 3rd, 2008
I (she) make fun by making a frightened face.
nikolajnewyork has contributed a photo to this story.
at 22:24 on April 3rd, 2008
Rob Peters, I like this story. It's good stuff.
the brain of men is filled with sex maybe that is the reason
at 02:23 on April 4th, 2008
"Talk is cheap, but teeth speak volumes."
She wanted to see what ugly would look like.
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at 22:42 on April 11th, 2008
He is a friend of mine. :)
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at 13:34 on January 1st, 2009
WILLIAM H. MILLARD
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ATTENTION; To whom it may concern
The wide spread contention is that only men and women are drawn together, attractively for the purposes of the intimacies...but this is an assumption what might not, in fact, be warranted? The body language as related to the nature of the signaling of men and women have quite well been disclosed and discuss on the internet, but what is that nature of the nature of the body language as would be had of two men liking one another or drawn to one another for the accomplishment of that mutuality's interests of the masterbatorialism's purposes...what is the nature of the body language as would be exhibited by two women, similarly drawn one to the other for the purposes of the mutuality of the masterbatoiralism's purpose?
It may also be true the intimacies of the sensualisms may not only be for the purpose of the reproduction of the species but it may or may not be true the intimacies of the sexuallly related individuals may also be utilitarious for the sake of the plrasurbility's means utility also? To me; theknowledge and the understandings of these types of the thingss are those, all, what would seem, to me, to be in accordance with the principals as would be gained by the all of these types of the things, all, what would be in accordance with that utililty as would be had of an use existance of an, other-wise, NATURAL LAW?
If it is true that the likes and the un-likes, similarly, can become conjugate and de-conjugate, if some such operating principals are universally true as related to the formal an functional means of the ormalisms and functionalims of the various kinds of the different or of the same types of the "things"...if the principal of the universalism be
true then necessarily of the occurrences of the intricacies happenstance universally occurring in the phenomenal and or physical world. In the continuance; I think it the case that some men often-times mutually are drawn one to the other for the purposeful accomplishments of that mutuality of the masterbatorial practice? In like manner I think, also, it the case that some women, mutually, are drawn one to another for the purposes of
the accomplishment of the mutuality of the masturbation also? If it be the case the one fellow may desire to masturbate or to be masturbated by the other, of these essentialities, then, what would be the nature of the body language as would be had in the each one of the two cases of the observer and observed?
I realize these inquired about matters what are about very sensitive issues, but never-the-less the more importance, than, of the understanding and knowing. However: if the latter be the phenomenal and or physical case...what is the nature of the body language what might possibly be exhibited or be noticed by the any one of the fellows exhibiting body language when the other fellow might be observing. What might be the body language as would be exhibited by the fellow observing the body
language had of the body language exhibited of the first? In similar fashion; what might be the body language as would be had of women's body language signaling of an interest in the intimacy as might be had with another women? What would be the body language as might be had of women desiring to masturbate and or to be masturbated of another women?
The all of these cases of an use of body language might, in fact, be the same or different in each one of the various cases? The reader of this inquiry may be wantonous to communicate with the author of this communication, and the reader may correspond with the author of this inquiry be dispatched, to the author, of this post and communicational content by dispatching to the author of this pose addressing and dispatching their correspondence dispatched to Mr. William H. Millard who is communicationally contactable when making of an use of the E-mail address shown in the below.
William H. Millard
wmillard@earthlink.net