WOMEN really do lead men on for the first few minutes after they meet but
without knowing it, says an Austrian scientist.
Karl Grammer of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Urban Ethology in Vienna
and his colleagues studied 45 male-female pairs of strangers in their teens and
early twenties. Even when women find the man unappealing, they don’t send clear
rejection signals to begin with, the researchers found.
Women chat happily, send sexually explicit signals and encourage the man’s
attention, even if they have absolutely no interest in him. This gives a woman
time to assess a man, says Grammer,…
