Sexual overperception bias is a bias, studied under error management theory, in which a person wrongly concludes that someone else is sexually interested in them. Research associated with the bias, originally proposed by David Buss and Martie Haselton, has found it occurs more often in men than in women.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountMen tend to overperceive the sexual interest women show in them, inferring interest where none exists more often than missing real interest, while women tend to underperceive the commitment intent of men. 1 First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Type of PhenomenonSourced to the subject's own account Sources
1. Error Management Theory (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, third paragraph
Error management theory provides a possible explanation for the discovery that men often tend to overperceive women's sexual interest and women tend to underperceive men's commitment intent.
Exceptions, The sister effect subsection
Haselton and Buss (2000) found that sexual overperception bias would not occur when the target the men had to perceive sexual intent from was their sister.
lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
Error management theory provides a possible explanation for the discovery that men often tend to overperceive women's sexual interest and women tend to underperceive men's commitment intent.
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