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It is estimated that when you meet a stranger, their impression of you is based 55 per cent on your appearance and body language, 38 per cent on your style of speaking and a mere 7 per cent on what you actually say. |
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It's all because of a strong connection between anxiety, arousal and attraction. In the "shaky bridge study" carried out by psychologists Arthur Aron and Don Dutton in the 1970s, men who met a woman on a high, rickety bridge found the encounter sexier and more romantic than those who met her on a low, stable one. |
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Sounds stupid, but love and laughter really did go together. You can read about it in "The effect of a shared humorous experience on closeness in initial encounters" in the journal Personal relationships (vol 11, p 61). We suggest that the blindfold/drinking straw approach is best confined to the laboratory. |
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Psychologists at North Adams State college in Massachusetts have proved what Shakespeare suggested - that music is the food of love. Well, rock music, at least. |
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Can you short-cut all the hard work of relationship-building by artificial means? People have been trying to crack this one for thousands of years. |
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More surprising was that a couple in one such experiment ended up getting married. Neuroscientists have shed some light on what's going on: meeting another person's gaze lights up brain regions associated with rewards. |
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