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So we didn't ask that.

So all we have now is participants responding how often their professors flirt with them.

But we also had this idea that professors might be just seen as more flirty because they're constantly in a spotlight and they're constantly trying to keep all their students' attention.

It doesn't happen that often, and it's not that big of a problem.

And just a little bit of it might be okay.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so it's obviously not like a rampant problem that we're trying to rein in on campuses all over the country.

But in sort of recent years, universities have become a little more conscious about trying to put a stop to it.

So in the paper we mentioned,

I forget some university in England, I think they recently changed their policy to explicitly ban flirting between students and faculty members, which wasn't explicitly banned before.

So nowadays, some students tend to have a little more entitlement.

So we wonder whether they are more out to think that they can flirt with their professor.

So it's not like perhaps a rampant problem, but the times that it is a problem, it can become a very serious problem.

Yeah, so a lot of people ask me that question.

So I've always been like, I research flirting all the time.

And I've always been very fascinated at sort of flirting in somewhat inappropriate dynamics.

And just going to a big school in undergrad, I noticed that some students would be a little flirty with their professors, typically the students who could probably gain something from doing it.

And then I read a paper that was done in like the 80s that studied this and no one has studied it since.

So I just became interested in seeing whether this was still a thing that was still happening and people still thought it was happening.

Yeah, so we had about 20 different behaviors that we gave participants to look at, which we piloted from a list of like 80 something behaviors.