Hardwired For Miscommunication? Why Women Think Sex When Men Just Want To Be Friends
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 16:20
in Psychology & Sociology
We are all familiar with the following scenarios: a woman and a man are having a conversation. She is warm and friendly and clearly interested in the conversation. He interprets her behavior as sexual interest. Or she is warm and friendly and clearly interested in the conversation and he thinks she is just being friendly and then she wonders if he's gay.Same behavior, different interpretations. Men and women misunderstand each other a lot and psychologists in the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) believe that we are built that way by biology and time - we have evolved to get the wrong idea about sexual interest. read more