Brayden Hall

And yeah, most of the behaviors are meant to be suggestive of some sort of romantic or sexual interest, but not reaching the level of sexual harassment.

So we didn't have anything like touching your professor or inappropriately or like touching students and things like that.

But we had things, yeah, like sitting on a desk, wearing particularly revealing clothing to a professor's class, calling on a student all the time, referencing that you're single.

So little minor things like that.

Yeah.

Yes.

So overall, yeah, participants, all of the undergraduate students we had in the study saw flirting as like this very uncommon thing that happens.

So we're looking at everything on the low end of the scale.

But we found that grandiose narcissistic students, so these students who think they're the best thing since sliced bread and whatever they want should be handed to them.

They were more likely to think that their professors are flirting with them, more likely to say they like, yeah, I flirted with professors, and more likely to think that this flirting is just happening more often all over the place.

So like, yeah, my friends do this with their professors and their professors do it with them.

Whereas vulnerable narcissistic students, so people who think the world has wronged them.

So, you know, woe is me.

I deserve special treatment because of that.

They thought that other people were doing it, but they didn't necessarily think that they were doing it themselves because they have the idea of like, oh, I'm like so ugly.

My professor would never flirt with me and I'm just too shy to flirt with a professor and stuff.

But all these other people are doing it.

Right.

Yeah.

Narcissistic people tend to have sort of a dimmer view of humanity.