Flirting: Does It Really Work?

Flirting, a non- verbal facial expression is found to be real in one of the recent studies. Some people are found to be good at conveying flirtatious cue and others, at receiving it.

Flirting can lead to a lot of misunderstandings, awkwardness and even sexual harassment allegations. Not everyone knows to figure out what the other person is trying to convey. People fail to understand whether the other person is smiling, being polite or flirting.//

To study more about the topic of flirting in a scientific manner and to know about the underlying mechanisms and functions, a scientific study was conducted.

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‘Non-verbal facial expressions also generally known as flirting is proved to be real and also to work effectively.’

A news paper has been published in the Journal of Sex Research by researchers based at the University of Kansas for examining if flirting has a particular facial cue effectively used by women to indicate interest in a man.

"There are very few scientific articles out there that have systematically studied this well-known phenomenon. None of these studies have identified the flirting facial expression and tested its effects.", said Omri Gillath, professor of psychology at KU, who co-wrote the paper.

Gillath's collaborators were lead author Parnia Haj-Mohamadi, a doctoral student in psychology at KU, and Erika Rosenberg of the University of California-Davis.

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It was found that some of the internal behaviors such as being romantically or sexually interested in someone can be expressed to others non-verbally through facial expressions or body gestures. This reveals that flirting works!

"Across our six studies, we found most men were able to recognize a certain female facial expression as representing flirting. It has a unique morphology, and it's different from expressions that have similar features -- for example, smiling -- but aren't identified by men as flirting expression.", says Gillath.

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Some professional actresses and women volunteers in the community were asked to spontaneously pose a flirting expression or to follow some instructions based on existing anthropological literature for what researchers define as flirting.

They found that some women were really good and effective at conveying flirtatious facial cue compared to other women and some men were good at receiving and recognizing this cue.

The researchers used the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to classify the morphology of highly recognized flirtatious facial expressions. The coding revealed the most effective flirting cues include a head turned to one side and tilted down slightly, a slight smile, and eyes turned forward towards the implied target.

"Our findings support the role of flirtatious expression in communication and mating initiation. For the first time, not only were we able to isolate and identify the expressions that represent flirting, but we were also able to reveal their function -- to activate associations related with relationships and sex.”, says Gillath.

Source-Medindia