Braden Hall

Yeah, honestly, I just always enjoyed flirting with people myself.

And so I wanted to do a PhD and do research in social psychology because I just find that interesting.

And

No one really, there's not a lot of people that research flirting, but it's something that everyone does at least like a few times in their life.

So I always just found it really interesting.

And I've always been interested in what we call sexy research, which is like research that people find like very attractive and interesting.

So like no disrespect to the people who study like how many times, like how many things we can remember at once.

But yeah, I just find this stuff really interesting.

Yeah.

So narcissism is the one that most people have heard of.

So people who are narcissistic tend to be very unreasonably entitled.

So they think that they are the best thing since sliced bread.

And so the world owes them tons of things that they don't owe other people.

And then there's Machiavellianism, which is based off Machiavelli's The Prince, which is basically people who are very tactically manipulative.

So they see people as kind of a means to an end and as kind of like pawns in the game they're playing.

So they almost always have like an ulterior motive to do whatever they're doing.

And then psychopathy.

These people are like very callous and unemotional, but they're also very erratic and impulsive.

So these people like the like the guy who like does like like wheelies on his motorcycle, but like doesn't really have like a lot of empathy for people like he's he's a little psychopathic.

So not a lot of people have studied the personality traits associated with flirting, and a lot of psychologists just tend to study the things that help us in the world and the things that...