Braden Hall

Yeah, so yeah, like we found, those people tend to be a little higher in the dark traits.

And it kind of boils down to the fact that most people view flirting as kind of like a special behavior that we reserve for people that we are romantically interested in.

So we don't just flirt with people just for whatever reason.

But these people view it the same way that you might view like giving someone a tip or just like complimenting someone.

It's just like a tool to do whatever.

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 has she seen you flirt or like your girlfriend or boyfriend 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.