• DOI:10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00529-9
Corpus ID: 14727874

The sexual overperception bias: Evidence of a systematic bias in men from a survey of naturally occurring events.

@article{Haselton2003TheSO,
  title={The sexual overperception bias: Evidence of a systematic bias in men from a survey of naturally occurring events.},
  author={M. Haselton},
  journal={Journal of Research in Personality},
  year={2003},
  volume={37},
  pages={34-47}
}

M. Haselton

Published 2003

Psychology

Journal of Research in Personality

Abstract According to error management theory ( Haselton & Buss, 2000 ), natural selection will often produce adaptively biased systems of judgment, even when these systems produce more errors than alternative designs. In a study of naturally occurring events, evidence of one such bias in men—the sexual overperception bias—was documented. Women ( n =102) and men ( n =114) reported past experiences in which a member of the opposite sex erroneously inferred their sexual interest. Women reported… CONTINUE READING

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