From LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News: Jeanna Bryner writes, "More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless."
And it's not just that men think every glance or gesture from a woman means something sexual. Writes Bryner, "it goes both ways for guys - they mistake females' sexual signals as friendly ones. The researchers suggest guys have trouble noticing and interpreting the subtleties of non-verbal cues, in either direction."
Now, really: This is news?
The lead researcher on the study was Coreen Farris of Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Results are to be published in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science.
But the news here, so far as I am concerned, is that such "research" was actually funded, in this case by the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Some days I'm so proud to be a taxpayer.
Seriously, if someone was truly in doubt about this -- perhaps if they were raised by wolves or kidnapped and returned after many years in a flying saucer -- couldn't such a person's curiosity on this point be more than adequately satisfied by asking any reasonably self-aware person above the age of, oh, 11 for girls and 14 for boys?
OK, maybe 24 for boys. 30?
7 comments:
Signals are never very easy to interpret, are they?
Did you ever watch the Teen Species?
I believe it mentions something about how teenagers can't get ANY signals right...
Being of the male persuasion, I would have to ask: So what's new??
You asked satirically if this was news...well, apparently lead researchers from Indiana don't get out much. It is farm country, after all.
I for the first time looked at the ads above the posts. Two for love stuff and two for toothpaste. I understand the references to recent posts; but, they reduce my faith in AdSense. Don't worry, I won't tell.
I just have to wonder who the two toothpaste advertisers are. "Damn, we got a hit a Curmudgeon's place; oh, its a post on Crest and all of the new trendy stuff. Well, maybe when the readers get done chuckling, they click on us. How much are paying for an impression?"
No, I wouldn't call this news.
the fact that i even came upon this website show that i'm going through a sucky man phase :(
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