William Costello

men are kind of learning from that.

Combine this with their over-perception bias and you've got a recipe kind of for disaster there.

I think both sexes could do better to understand, engage in better cross-sex mind reading, which is something our lab is studying right now.

Try to see things from the other's point of view.

Learn about these biases that exist and be more maybe forthright and clear.

I do have sympathy with women who say that they're

reluctant to give firm rejections to men, because I've seen some men get very aggressive even in response to rejection, which isn't very nice for a woman to have to deliver.

But there's a whole host of other reasons women misrepresent romantic interest.

33% of women report to have

engaged in a foodie call, which is misrepresenting romantic interest in order to dine at a man's expense.

Whoa.

Yeah, so it's pretty high, you'd think.

Foodie calls are a real thing, yeah.

And you imagine this drives a frustrated young man on the dating scene crazy because I heard that the average cost of a first date in New York was $90.

And it's like, wow, if...

You're a young man and you don't have a lot of money and you get burned with a few foodie calls.

What a tinder keg for resentment towards the other sex.

So it's not good.

I don't know.

I'm not saying that's very typical.