Lazy ecopsych explanation: maybe peoples’s sense of the obviousness of signals is calibrated for a small social environment where everyone knows everyone else really well?
This and/or “selecting for a partner who is good at reading my signals” and/or plausible deniability is my go-to explanation for the dating case, but I don’t think it applies to everything discussed in this post or even to all the stuff in the dating case.
Lazy ecopsych explanation: maybe peoples’s sense of the obviousness of signals is calibrated for a small social environment where everyone knows everyone else really well?
This and/or “selecting for a partner who is good at reading my signals” and/or plausible deniability is my go-to explanation for the dating case, but I don’t think it applies to everything discussed in this post or even to all the stuff in the dating case.