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Dr. Carin Perilloux Interview

The Mating Grounds Podcast

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Women Are Underreporting and Guys Are Overestimating

Women are underreporting kind of playing down how interested they are when they have to report it to somebody you know but I also do think that guys have somewhat of a bias in terms of thinking that women are a little bit more interest in them than they really are. So all the three types basically break down the same guys slightly overestimating or maybe not depending on how honest women are being with themselves. We actually found an effect where the more attractive the guy is the more he tends to overperceive the sexual interest so we actually found this really cool effect with attractiveness and it was that guys who overestimated their attractiveness also overestimated how interested women were in them.

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