Lol if it helps it can vary from individual. This isn't an absolute and there are plenty out there who would be just as liable to give you the finger as smile at you.
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The studies just found that women also get asked more often if something's wrong or are perceived more often as "bitchy" if they don't smile than men are. The reverse is that men smiling is often perceived as a more negative thing.. So they don't exactly get off easy, either.
I think that was the point of the post and the guy's comments tbh (might be interpreting it wrong). A girl a guy is attracted to smiles at him and he's done. Whether they know she's not actually meaning it in a flirtatious manner, his brain goes "I love you now" and that's it for him.
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Not sure if this is evidence guys are insanely starved for positive affection, just the way biology has wired things, or part of the whole "pressure put on men not to smile means smiling is a pretty big deal so of course they're going to think it means something" kind of thing.
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Could theorize for days on that. Or at least for another 6 minutes. But it's all just conjecture on my end.
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Point is I don't think most men assume a woman smiling at them means she's DTF/wants to have all their children, but it doesn't stop their brains responding in a receptive fashion
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The studies just found that women also get asked more often if something's wrong or are perceived more often as "bitchy" if they don't smile than men are. The reverse is that men smiling is often perceived as a more negative thing.. So they don't exactly get off easy, either.
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Not sure if this is evidence guys are insanely starved for positive affection, just the way biology has wired things, or part of the whole "pressure put on men not to smile means smiling is a pretty big deal so of course they're going to think it means something" kind of thing.
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Could theorize for days on that. Or at least for another 6 minutes. But it's all just conjecture on my end.
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Point is I don't think most men assume a woman smiling at them means she's DTF/wants to have all their children, but it doesn't stop their brains responding in a receptive fashion