Sunday, September 20, 2020

Tumblr Post: Humans Fail At Accurately Identifying Flirting


If you've ever felt like the struggle is painfully real for you when it comes to identifying flirting, this quick Tumblr thread is here to reassure you that you are not alone. No, it turns out that studies have been conducted showing that humans are generally challenged when it comes to being able to identify actual flirting signals. Yeah, we're not out here reading minds. Facial expressions, underlying social habits of different individuals in different situations make for a disorienting melting pot, where it's pretty much impossible to tell what's going on. 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this Tumblr post about humans' willful ignorance. We're terribly forgetful creatures. 

1.

Text - teaboot The number of times I have been delighted by witty banter only to find out later that I was "Flirting" is both unfortunate and disappointing. teaboot "haha so what about that guy, huh?" Me: what about him "Well you seemed super into him" Me: what why ..dude you were flirting all night"

2.

Text - Me: Me: Whoms'TTMTM trainerdelaney I found out several of my female coworkers were planning on trying to get our male coworker to ask me out because "You guys kept flirting" but I was like "We were literally just goofing around. Like we literally just told jokes to each other. Literally just stuff that friends do, the same stuff you and I do." I was definitely 100% NOT flirting but everyone thought I was

3.

Text - trainerdelaney "You were laughing at everything TJ did!" "He paper clipped a banana to the ceiling, Isabelle. That's fucking bonkers" spindletrees This might be a good time for Ms. Psych degree here to step in and let ye all know that People Are Unable To ldentify Flirting. There are double-blind studies to support this, if you instruct participants to flirt or not flirt with another participant, neither the second

4.

Text - participant nor onlookers are able to accurately tell which instruction the first participant was given. Even if you get the flirting participant to rate their attraction to the person they're flirting with, and only count trials where people are either flirting with people they find attractive, or not flirting with people they don't find attractive NO ONE CAN TELL WHO IS FLIRTING OR WHO ISN'T.

5.

Text - gallantblade475 I've heard that people actually have a "less than 50% chance" of guess whether someone is flirting or not. saxifraga-x-urbium Thank fuck this isn't just me failing at humanity

Submitted by:

Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)