Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Music = Romance




Research finds that an average-looking man's chances of getting a woman's phone number after flirting doubled when the woman had just heard romantic music.

A guy whom women rated as average talked about food products with ~90 women, aged 18-20. Before the conversation, Group 1 heard a romantic French tune, Je L’aime a Mourir. Group 2 heard a "neutral" French song, L’heure du Thé.

After talking, the guy only 28% of Group 2 women's phone # vs. 52% of Group 1.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Don't Date




A study reveals a positive association between romantic involvement and delinquency in adolescence. The number of romantic relationships from adolescence to young adulthood was positively related to delinquency in young adulthood even after controlling for earlier delinquency in adolescence, gender, age, puberty, race/ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (family structure, parents' education).