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Watch the video below and learn exactly what it means to be a Kinsey Reporter and how you can get on way way to becoming a Flirting Expert, just like us Kinsey Reporters!

Hello! This week we finalized our co-authored paper, integrating our different sections into one cohesive paper with subheadings. We integrated sources into the paper and created a citations page. Chelsea finalized our digital deliverable, linking together our recorded pieces. She also recorded her voice overs and incorporated them into the video

With our research all coming together, we had decided it was time to sit down and write the scientific article. I started off with the biological aspects of flirting, so that the audience would become more comfortable considering human mating behaviors as a subject rooted in the hard sciences. From there, Neha took over

So far, we have made a lot of progress in our project. Chelsea is now taking the footage that we made during our trip to AMNH and adding a voice-over to the video so that it can serve as a stand-alone deliverable. Our major focus now is writing a co-authored science article as our other […]

Many people find flirting to be a scary, ambiguous, and inimitable activity. While executing our project, we have definitely learned that flirting is a very, very broad and overarching term. When something encompasses such variety, it should not come as a shock that it is spurred by several different reasons. There are different motivations for […]

(This week, we waited to post our weekly report on our citizen science project because we planned to complete a major part of the project after the AMNH trip: recording some of the video elements) Over the last few weeks we have all been observing and taking note of the many occurrences of flirting that […]

In starting observations for the Kinsey Reporter, the most obvious and important question to ask was: what is flirting and how do we classify what it is and isn’t? Thus, we looked at a report by Psychology Today which spoke about the various ways to spot someone flirting. Namely, the article highlighted nonverbal flirting cues (smiling, […]

An update dedicated to background information (not entirely, so don’t worry!): the Kinsey Reporter is an app that allows anyone to record any type of sexual behavior they see/observe/participate in anonymously. The data can be seen here. The Kinsey Reporter is part of the Kinsey Institute, which does a wide range of studies regarding sexual […]