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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 348-354Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02092.x
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- NIAAA NIH HHS [F31 AA016055, F31 AA 016055, F31 AA016055-01, F31 AA016055-02] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [T32 MH017146, T32 MH 17146] Funding Source: Medline
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Men and women often disagree about the meaning of women's nonverbal cues, particularly those conveying dating-relevant information. Men perceive more sexual intent in women's behavior than women perceive or report intending to convey. Although this finding has been attributed to gender differences in the threshold for labeling ambiguous cues as sexual in nature, little research has been conducted to determine etiology. Using a model that differentiates perceptual sensitivity from decisional bias, we found no evidence that men have lenient thresholds for perceiving women's nonverbal behavior as indicating sexual interest. Rather, gender differences were captured by a relative perceptual insensitivity among men. Just as in previous studies, men were more likely than women to misperceive friendliness as sexual interest, but they also were quite likely to misperceive sexual interest as friendliness. The results point to the promise of computational models of perception in increasing the understanding of clinically relevant social processes.
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