The Guys Who Think You Want Them May Be The Last Ones You Really Want
LatestPrevious studies have shown that men tend to overestimate women’s interest in them. But new research shows that some men are more likely than others to assume that chick was totally into them, even when she wasn’t.
According to MSNBC, researchers put 200 straight undergraduates through a “speed meeting” experiment (they weren’t actually set up on dates). They asked the participants to rate how interested they were in each other, and how interested they thought others were in them. They also had participants rate their own attractiveness. Unsurprisingly, guys who thought they themselves were sexy were most likely to overestimate women’s interest in them. And they were most likely to say a woman was interested when they found her attractive. Guys rated as attractive by women, however (as opposed to by themselves), tended to be more accurate at judging women’s interest. And women, in general, underestimated how interested men were in them.