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Guide to Flirting
What Social Science can tell you about flirting and how to do it
Why do we flirt?
Flirting is much more than just a bit of fun: it is a universal and
essential aspect of human interaction. Anthropological research
shows that flirting is to be found, in some form, in all cultures and
societies around the world.
Flirting is a basic instinct, part of human nature. This is not surprising: if
we did not initiate contact and express interest in members of the opposite
sex, we would not progress to reproduction, and the human species would
become extinct.
According to some evolutionary psychologists, flirting may even be the
foundation of civilisation as we know it. They argue that the large human
brain – our superior intelligence, complex language, everyth [