Courtship and Rejection Signals Researches – 2

Subsequently, to verify the correctness of the results and to understand if they really were nonverbal flirting behaviors, researchers made other test observations.
The result is that, the previously listed behaviors, were effectively nonverbal courtship behaviors.

It has been noted the fact that they were present only in mixed contexts where either men and women were present, and also that the greater was the number of the signals used by a woman, the greater was the number of men that, interpreting those signals as a sign of interest, approached her.

An unexpected discovery is been that the mostly approached subjects were those that sent more signals and not those judged more attractive by the observers.

This is a further confirmation not only of the importance that the cataloged gestures have in the courtship process, but also that men, as noticed by Cary (1976), tend to approach a woman only after she has sent some signal of interest, when they can be almost certain not to be rejected, while they generally avoid those that don't do it, even if they are more attractive than the other ones.

In the second study, researchers have appraised the correctness of the previous research’s results. Using data from the previous research, they have tried to predict if a woman would have been approached by observing the type and number of nonverbal signals she was sending.

This second research confirmed that the number of approaches is directly correlated to the quantity of sent signals. A higher number of nonverbal gestures by a woman translated in a higher number of approaches. Again, higher signaling subjects received a higher number of approaches in comparison to more attractive subjects that signaled with lower intensity.