Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite-sex interactions

• Main Authors: LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C., TSAI, Ming-hong, LAI, Mark H. C., LIM, Amy J. Y., ACKERMAN, Joshua M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: attraction; evolutionary psychology; mate selection; short-term mating; social confidence; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3228; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4485/viewcontent/Confidence_2020_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Objective: We investigated whether men's social confidence in an initial, opposite-sex chatting context can be improved through a video tutorial and the extent to which being perceived as socially confident results in being seen as more romantically desirable and worthy of future contact. Metho...