Most of my life I've been fairly clueless when it comes to interpreting the intentions of someone I'm interested in. I'm usually pretty good at observing other people and reading their intentions toward another person, but once I throw my own feelings into the mix, I'm completely clueless.
It turns out that I'm not alone in being clueless. A recent study by Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences shows that "Young men just find it difficult to tell the difference between women who are being friendly and women who are interested in something more. And here I thought it was always just me! :)
Interesting notes from the study:
67% of university women reported they had a male acquaintance misperceive their friendliness as sexual interest, 26% of which happened in the last month
Both men and women were more sensitive to cues signaling friendliness than to cues signaling sexual interest
Interestingly enough, how provocatively a woman dressed had little impact on a guy's sensitivity to friendliness; but if she was provocatively dressed, men were more sensitive to her nonverbal cues when signaling sexual interest
Not surprisingly, women are more likely to report incidents of attempts to be friendly being misperceived as sexual interest, rather than incidents where they attempt to show sexual interest and are misperceived as being friendly | Around the world
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