Weird Studies I Wish I could get Paid For #2 Covid Dreams/ Kansas Flirting Study

 Good morning everyone, 

It's been a couple of months since I have pulled one of these out and written about them on my blog so if you are new here or if you forgot let's go over the rules again. There are some of the criteria I put on this to fit into this category. First, they have to be interesting if the studies are not interesting I am not going to write about them, two they have to be published in Sociology Today or in the case of the second study Psychology Today. The last criterium is this it has to be something that I wish I could get paid to do. 

Now that we have the rules let's get into the studies the first study comes from a team working out of one of my favorite Social Science Labs in the Country and that is the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The study wanted to explore the effects of Covid on the inherently psychological Sleep cycle. The researchers at UCONN were more interested in dreams than physiological effects. Not all participants have had Covid-19, fifty-one participants had Covid-19 and fifty did not. of the 101 sixteen percent of the participants reported having dreams related to the Covid-19 pandemic, of that sixteen percent that reported the dreams over a quarter of those people have reported having Covid-19. Not much to extract here the only thing I can draw from this is that being exposed to Covid-19 or extracting it is a lot to think about and it even slips into the subconscious. I just find this interesting. 

Now we get to arguably the most groundbreaking study of 2021 and we are in the early weeks of it. This study comes out of the Sexual and Relationships studies department at The Edgar School of Social Science at the University of Kansas. The principal question here is that if a man can truly tell if a female is flirting with him. The answer to this question they found is yes Females have physical "tells" that insinuate sexual attraction. I am going to spare you so you don't have to read the study. The biggest tell that a female is flirting according to the researchers is this "a smile with a subtle often subconscious head tilt twelve degrees to the left" There were six studies done inside of this one paper. Now we have some sort of substantial evidence and the last trial conducted after figuring this out found that yes this subtle head tilt works and is picked up as a cue fifty-nine percent of the time. Again this is something that I wish I could have gotten paid for.    

As Always Stay Safe and God Bless 

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