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Flirty or dirty? The difference can be in the blink of an eye

In a flirt's life, success is measured in seconds. Unfortunately, so is failure.

It all comes down to eye contact or the even more fleeting "eyebrow flash".

The authors of a dauntingly forensic survey of flirting describe eyebrow flash as an upward flex of the eyebrows that takes about a sixth of a second.