Playing Hard-to-Get: Comparative Advantage in Dating?

People often want success in everything, including dating. Hence, the strategy for dating was suggested--the method of playing hard-to-get. It spread rapidly with countless tutorials and posts on how to execute plan. Despite its popularity, this paper examines strategy's validity through experiments refers previous studies field. One hundred single heterosexual participants, each date three opposite-sex confederates, are then asked record their experience. The confederates perform various levels hard-to-get by duration tactic during participant. Therefore, participant would respond level differently, providing comparison between effectiveness. expected result experiment is that moderate confederate gains an advantage over other confederates. using tactics moderately, people obtain a comparative world.