A Psychology Today article by researcher Gurit Birnbaum examines how sexual arousal can distort people's perception of romantic rejection signals. Four studies found that arousal makes people interpret ambiguous romantic interactions optimistically, but this bias disappears when rejection is explicit and unmistakable.
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A Psychology Today article by researcher Gurit Birnbaum examines how sexual arousal can distort people's perception of romantic rejection signals. Four studies found that arousal makes people interpret ambiguous romantic interactions optimistically, but this bias disappears when rejection is explicit and unmistakable.