Marius Stavang

It is hard to sort of unlearn these things.

But if it is social, of course, it is possible.

But the other thing we found, like the friend zone thing...

that sort of was there from like already age 16, it turns out that girls' tendency to misperceive guys' romantic interest as only friendliness, that appeared to be there already from the age of 16.

And the idea is that, again, now we're in sort of the cold calculating thing, that girls might have this, we might have like this tendency to sort of

not see how interested men really are in them as like this defense mechanism to try to softly reject them.

I was pretty surprised by this finding that like already from age 16, it seemed that like girls had this greater tendency to sort of just discount a guy's sort of romantic interest as friendliness, like kind of friendzoning him.

But girls, they very rarely found themselves in that situation, right?

So if she was into it, guys were like really sensitive to picking it up, basically.

So it's very rare for girls already from the age of 16 to sort of

end up in this friend zone situation where they're hanging out with a guy and he thinks she's hanging out with him just because she wants to be friends.

I mean, he picks up, it seems guys pick up very early on that she's into him.

So it's very rare for people to end up in this awkward situation where he's been just thinking she's been hanging out with him because she wanted to be friends.

That's a good question.

Well, I don't have an answer to that, but it does.

It shows that boys and girls will experience different kinds of rejection, right?

I mean, boys will more often, like, experience a kind of rejection where they will kind of get their hearts crushed, blurring up, oh, she's been just seeing me as a friend all the way while I've been in love with her.

While girls are... They're experiencing some other kind of rejection.

They might lose their friend, right?

And...