As mentioned in the paragraph above, women tend to be keener on emotional
cues. In fact, women have four times more neurons connecting their left and
right brains than men do. Women also have three times more areas of the brain
dedicated to evaluating behavior then men have. This difference in cognitive
mechanics means that women are more likely to notice if a man is attracted to
her or not. The flip side to this recognition factor is that men are less
likely to notices non-verbal cues of attraction. Because of that, a woman might
flirt with a man then be surprised to find that he is not responding to her.
Simply stated, he might not even recognize that she is flirting with him.
Verbal Differences
Men are usually more straight-forward with their communication than women.
Instead of saying, “Perhaps you might like to go to the beach,” a man might
say, “Let’s go to the beach.” Women, in general, are more likely to use polite
phrases, filler words, and questions. As part of the societal norm to be
demure, women will structure their language so they will not appear bossy. A
common example of this is when a man asks the woman which restaurant she’d like
to go. “It doesn’t matter,” or, “Where would you like to go,” are very common
responses.
This type of communication barrier can give the man the impression that the
woman is insecure, when she is really trying to be polite. Women might think
the man is being too forthcoming, or controlling, when he really wouldn’t mind
if she objected.