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Communication Accommodation Theory and Flirting

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theory holds that individuals change their manner of verbally or nonverbally communicating with each other, dependent on perceived differences between the individuals involved. This theory seems to fit inordinately  well into the flirting situation, where individuals may not always be everything they seem to be. The purpose here is to investigate reactions  to flirting behaviors in terms of communication accommodation theory in order to make some assessment of what accommodative processes individuals perceive. The research effort seeks to answer the question  of what percentage of individual verbal and nonverbal flirting actions viewers perceive. Literature Review There is much written about flirting, and there is  much written about interpersonal communication. Not all is "serious" science, however, and not all that is serious in its approach appears in refereed journals. Monica Moore (1995, 2002)  is one such researcher whose work appears to be scientifically valid but often gains more attention in the popular press. One such work is "Courtship Communication and Perception," quietly  published in Perceptual and Motor Skills but widely discussed in the popular press. Moore (2002) states that "Although ethologists have detailed courtship rituals  for many species, courting behavior of humans has not received extensive study from an ethological standpoint. Yet there are clearly facial expressions and gestures that are commonly labeled flirting behaviors"  (p. 97). Moore (1995, 2002) has logged more than 2,000 hours in direct observation of individuals in social settings, introducing a qualitative component  to what generally had been restricted to investigation by quantitative methods. Qualitative approaches formerly were regarded as the "poor relation" of serious science, but attention to bias issues, design