[header] How to deal with mixed signals [title] Decide if you're reading too much into the situation. [step] Sometimes, if you're just flirting with a person, you may read the situation as more flirtatious than it is. Studies have shown that men, especially, are guilty of this problem. 
That is, men are more likely to read an innocent gesture as sexual or flirtatious than women. [substeps] It may be the person isn't giving you mixed signals at all.