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Both sexes know men prefer a direct approach from woman, but is it just because men can't read the signs?
Men and women's attitudes to relationships have become remarkably similar -- when dating women are now much more likely to make the first move.
It will come as no surprise that research finds men prefer this first move to be direct. But do men and women agree on what a direct approach is and why such directness is necessary in the first place?
These questions are addressed in a new study published recently in the journal Personality and Individual Differences (Wade et al., 2009). Forty women aged between 19 and 22 were asked to list the types of opening lines they might use to signal their interest in dating a man...[More]
Related: the psychology of relationsips, particularly: the hidden purpose of chat-up lines.
From Psyblog