This kind of flirting works best

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Some people succeed at flirting more often than others. Plenty of people are obviously more attractive than the rest of us, but it also seems that a lot of them know what works. Now researchers do, too.

Some people are experts at flirting. Others of us never flirt or fail spectacularly. But what kind of flirting works best?

One particular flirting technique almost always works for everyone and in every situation. More on that later, because not everything works every time.

“What’s most effective depends on your gender and whether the purpose of the flirtation is a long-term or short-term relationship,” says Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, a professor at NTNU’s Department of Psychology.

Kennair belongs to a research group that has studied flirting in Norway and the USA and what people believe are effective tactics – and for whom and in what context.

The research group came from NTNU and from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and State University of New York at Oswego.

This group has just led the work on the largest survey to date of chemicals in bioplastics and plastics made from plant-based materials.

But first: What exactly is flirting?

“Flirting involves different signals that people send to each other. It’s done to attract potential partners. Men and women both flirt to get the attention of a desired partner, and perhaps to achieve a sexual or romantic result from it,” says Professor Kennair.

“Flirting can be done verbally as well as non-verbally says T. Joel Wade, a Presidential Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University in the USA”, a co-author of the study.

We basically flirt to attract a potential partner, regardless of whether we stop before it gets that far or not.

So what works?

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