This article is from the Romance and Dating FAQ, by Henning Klaskala alt.romance.FAQ@online.de with numerous contributions by others.
Most respondents believed that sensitivity to others could be developed.
Some people DO have this ability, but most just fake it.
It comes with experience...
People learn from their experiences, and make
judgements based upon these. If certain behaviour
results in favourable responses, we tend to repeat it.
Given unfavourable responses, we tend not to repeat it
(at least, not very often). So any sense of
"prediction" is mainly the application of past
experience.
 
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