She's Just Not That Into You : Discrepant Levels of Attraction Between Opposite-Sex Friends

Abstract

In this study we utilized natural sampling to acquire a set of male-female dyads, and asked male and female partners about their level of romantic attraction to one another. We predicted that (1) young men would report higher levels of romantic attraction to their opposite-sex friends than women would; (2) men would over-estimate their female friend’s romantic attraction to them; and (3) women would underestimate their male friend’s romantic attraction to them.