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You don't have to know that a woman likes me.
If you're still looking for someone to spend Valentine's Day with, don't let the other person know what's on your mind.
A study found that women are attracted to men who can't tell how good they think of themselves.
Many existing psychological studies have believed the hypothesis that A likes B depends on how much B likes him.
Dr. Erin Witchurch and Dr. Timothy Wilson from the University of Virginia in the United States said, "According to the existing psychology hypothesis, how much A likes B can be predicted according to how much B likes A," but added, "But if you don't know how much B likes A, A thinks about B for a long time, and wonders how B sees him, and then feels attracted to him and falls in love with him."
The researchers lied to 47 female college students at the University of Virginia that it was a study on the subject of "Can Facebook serve as an online dating site?"
The researchers tricked each female student into seeing profiles of 15 to 20 boys in addition to them, and then showed each female student profiles of four boys.
The girls believed this profile to be true, but it was a fictionalized profile.
The researchers divided the girls into three groups.
To the first group of girls, these four men said they liked the girl the most.
The second group said these men were the ones who considered the girls normal.
For the third group of girls, four men said they could be their favorite or average person.
The girls in the third group couldn't see how much men actually cared about them.
As a result of the study, women who think that men like them very much showed good feelings toward men, as in other studies.
They had a greater affinity for four men than for women who knew that men considered themselves moderate.
However, the women who were most attracted to the four men were girls in the third group who did not know how men thought of themselves.
The researchers explained, "In this study, women were most likable when there was very little information about men, but the situation is no different from meeting someone on an online dating site that is often done these days."
Dr. Witchurch said, "In order to find and choose someone to be your lover, don't reveal your feelings as much as you can, but hide them," adding, "If the other person doesn't know my feelings, the other person thinks more and becomes interested in me."
The findings were published in the latest issue of "Psychological Science," and Eurekalert, a U.S. scientific paper introduction site, and the online science news Science Daily reported on the 8th.
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