Why We Ignore Red Flags When We’re Attracted to Someone: The Psychology of Mixed Signals (opens in new tab)

He told you he “wasn’t emotionally available,” then spent four straight hours discussing childhood wounds while touching your knee in a dimly lit wine bar like a divorced philosophy professor who alphabetizes his spices and owns six identical black turtlenecks. Three days later, he sends: “Sorry lol crazy week.” And now your nervous system has become a small authoritarian state devoted entirely to interpreting punctuation. Welcome to modern romance. According to fascinating new research by re...