{"id":3345,"date":"2025-09-10T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/seven-second-hugs-hint-at-romantic-interest\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:06:57","slug":"seven-second-hugs-hint-at-romantic-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/seven-second-hugs-hint-at-romantic-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-second hugs hint at romantic interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-10 13:06:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Hugging somebody for seven seconds indicates a romantic interest.<BR><br \/>\nA new study in Germany got 60 people &#8211; some of whom were friends while others were lovers &#8211; to repeatedly embrace one another.<BR><br \/>\nAdvanced AI software examined the duration of the hugs and the positioning of body parts such as knees and feet during each embrace.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers revealed: &#8220;For hugging duration, a significant main effect of relationship status emerged, indicating that platonic friends hugged for a shorter average duration (2.88 seconds) than romantic couples (7.02 seconds).&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nSebastian Ocklenburg, lead author of the study at the MSH Medical School Hamburg, told Psychology Today: &#8220;The next time you want to know if someone likes you as a friend or maybe a little bit more, pay attention to how long they hug you when saying goodbye.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Less than three seconds? You are clearly in the friend zone. Seven seconds or more? They may have more feelings for you than you may have thought.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-10 13:06:54 Hugging somebody for seven seconds indicates a romantic interest. A new study in Germany got 60 people &#8211; some of whom were friends while others were lovers &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}