The Role of Emotion Projection, Sexual Desire, and Self-Rated Attractiveness in the Sexual Overperception Bias.
Attraction
Error Management Theory
Sexual overperception bias
Social perception
Speed-dating
Journal
Archives of sexual behavior
ISSN: 1573-2800
Titre abrégé: Arch Sex Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 1273516
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2021
08 2021
Historique:
received:
26
05
2020
accepted:
16
04
2021
revised:
22
02
2021
pubmed:
15
8
2021
medline:
16
10
2021
entrez:
14
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A consistent finding in the literature is that men overperceive sexual interest in women (i.e., sexual overperception bias). Several potential mechanisms have been proposed for this bias, including projecting one's own interest onto a given partner, sexual desire, and self-rated attractiveness. Here, we examined the influence of these factors in attraction detection accuracy during speed-dates. Sixty-seven participants (34 women) split in four groups went on a total of 10 speed-dates with all opposite-sex members of their group, resulting in 277 dates. The results showed that attraction detection accuracy was reliably predicted by projection of own interest in combination with participant sex. Specifically, men were more accurate than women in detecting attraction when they were not interested in their partner compared to when they were interested. These results are discussed in the wider context of arousal influencing detection of partner attraction.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34389894
doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02017-5
pii: 10.1007/s10508-021-02017-5
pmc: PMC8416843
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2507-2516Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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