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We recently did another study and found that students higher in narcissism are more likely to flirt with their professors in order to try to get like higher grades or make the professor like them and stuff like that.

No, no, I tried to do that, and the university had a lot of problems with that.

You can't lock people in rooms.

How many times do we have to tell you?

Yeah, we for this study, we asked most most psychosocial psych studies.

We just ask people and most people surprisingly are very open with their dark personalities.

Like a narcissistic person is very happy to tell you that they think they are better than everyone else.

So we ask them questions like that.

We give them different personality inventories.

And then we asked them basically and across a bunch of different situations, like, how well do you think you flirt in these situations?

And they just kind of write on a scale.

And then we asked two people that knew them well.

So we asked people like, hey, go find two of your friends or your mom if she's seen you flirt or like your girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever.

And then they report, like, how well do you think this person flirts?

And then we can average all that together to get a pretty good idea or the best idea we can get about how skilled someone is.

Yeah, so the setting does matter for people who care about the setting.

So for like, yeah, hopefully me and you like we're not flirting with our bosses or like flirting.

Oh, I don't like in church or something like that.

But yeah, like in a bar at a party, we might be flirting like a lot more.

Or if we're, you know, just trying to get something from someone.