David Cooper (host)

Is that like moral flexibility where they think it's no big deal?

Or is it the classic like rules are for other people, they don't apply for me?

Like I know it's wrong, but the rules don't apply to me.

Were there groups of students, I hope there were, hopefully most of them, who sort of knew it was wrong and why?

Well, let's talk about why it's bad because there's like a power dynamic at play, right?

Like a massive power imbalance.

The professor holds the keys to you getting good grades.

It can get like legally messy.

Is that what students are trying to achieve when they flirt with the professor?

Are they trying to get better grades?

Is that the main goal?

Now, students flirting with professors, like, it's kind of okay, it's messy, but in the power dynamic thing, they're the ones with the less power.

It's inappropriate, the professor should shut it down.

Did you look at it, or you worry what you might find if you look at it with the professors flirting with students angle?

How often does legal get involved with experimental psychology research?

Is there something you want everyone to know about student professor flirting?

Oh, wow.

Okay.

You heard it here first.

Well, I'm here with Brayden Hall, an experimental psychology researcher at the University of Alabama.