Braden Hall

So we call that relational flirting.

So you're flirting to just enhance the intensity of a relationship.

So people flirt with strangers to try to become like a little closer to them.

And then yeah, throughout relationships, people continue to flirt to strengthen that relationship.

I mean, there are several different motives, but yeah, the people high in the dark traits that we found are rather uninterested in that kind of flirting.

That's like boring.

Except narcissistic people, they were slightly interested in that, likely because they just enjoy any positive attention that they get from anyone.

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.