Psychology Study Questions Theory That Men Overestimate Women's Sexual Interest
New research from Penn Professor of Psychology Robert Kurzban and Carin Perilloux of Texas State University calls into question the theory that men are overconfident in estimating the sexual interest of a female partner. Their findings, published in Psychological Science, show that, when asked to interpret “signals” on the “dating behavior scale,” groups of men and women surveyed came to roughly the same conclusions about the women's behaviors. The discrepancy they found was between women's self-perception regarding behavior, and how they (and men) interpret the behaviors of other women.
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