Want to make a good impression on a date or in everyday conversation? Then pay attention to the things that scientists say can influence how people perceive you.
10. Don't cross your arms
According to a 2016 study, those who display "closed" body language are seen as less attractive by others.
- The researchers created two sets of profiles for men and women on a popular dating app. In one set, men and women adopted a “closed” position (crossing their arms over their chest or wrapping them around their shoulders).
- Another set showed people in expansive postures (making a "V" sign with their fingers or reaching out to grab something).
- The results showed that those in an expansive posture were chosen much more often than those in a reserved and "withdrawn" posture.
9. Some like it hot
Interesting results were obtained by a study conducted by employees of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. They found that for women who ate something spicy, male sexual attractiveness increased immediately by 20%.
The study's authors believe that this is related to the concept of embodied cognition, which is based on the complex relationship between sensory-motor experience and behavior, emotion and decision making.
8. Make fewer grammatical mistakes in your correspondence
One study found that most men and women reject online suitors solely because of grammatical errors in their dating profiles. And 75% of 9,000 people who posted their profiles on dating sites admitted that they would reject anyone with spelling errors typical of a fifth-grader.
7. Red is the color of attraction
Color perception is very subjective. However, there is one color that most men find very sexy. Of course, you have already guessed what color I am talking about.
Red is perceived as an indicator of sexual readiness. Researchers believe that this may have something to do with the natural mechanisms of the female body that demonstrate interest in a partner. For example, a woman may blush during communication with a man she is interested in. Or during sexual caresses.
Hence the conclusion: if you want to be more attractive to men, wear red.
6. Danger brings people together
In the 1970s, social psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron studied the relationship between the perception of danger and sexual desire.
The male subjects were asked to walk across the high, suspended Capilano Bridge, or the low, secure one. At the end of the bridge and on the bridge itself, a female psychologist would approach them, ask a few questions, and leave her phone number "in case of additional questions."
It turned out that those who had risked walking on the high bridge called her much more often than the men who had walked on the low bridge. The researchers linked this to an “arousal attribution error.” That is, the feeling of danger led to the appearance of arousal. However, the men mistook it for sexual attraction.
So if you want to have an unforgettable date, invite her or him to one of the scariest rides in the world. At the same time, you will test whether you and your vis-à-vis have nerves of steel.
5. Try to get enough sleep
Lack of sleep affects our appearance and emotions. And also how other people perceive us.
In a 2010 study, researchers from Sweden and the Netherlands photographed several people who had slept at least eight hours the night before, as well as those who had not slept for 31 hours. A group of 65 people aged 18 to 61 were then asked to rate which photos they liked best. The photos were presented in random order.
Sleep-deprived people were rated as unattractive across the board. Study participants reported having “puffy eyelids, red eyes, dark circles under the eyes, and pale skin.” They also noted that sleep-deprived people looked sadder than their better-rested counterparts.
4. Enter from the right
You probably know that the left and right hemispheres of the brain work differently. And each of them is responsible for its own functions. And scientists have also found out that they also affect your chances of successfully talking to someone at a public event.
So if you walk up to someone in a club with loud music playing and speak into their right ear, you're much more likely to get them to listen than if you speak into their left ear. The researchers actually tested their theory in a club, not a lab.
It is still not clear why people are so much more sensitive to things said on the right side. And it is unlikely that this approach would work with someone who is slightly deaf in the right ear.
3. Loves? Doesn't love?
One study conducted by researchers from the Universities of Virginia and Harvard found that women were more attracted to men whose intentions were unclear.
Surprisingly, their level of attractiveness was even higher than that of the men who clearly showed interest in the women participating in the experiment. So the best way to be more attractive to a girl is to confuse her about your attitude towards her.
2. The higher the voice, the lower the level of attractiveness
While the media and movies tend to portray high-pitched, high-pitched voices as sexier, science has found that men don't really like them that much in reality.
According to a 2013 study, a woman's voice sounded attractive when it was "husky and moderately high."
This doesn't mean you have to speak in a very low, rough voice, but don't squeak like Mickey Mouse if you want to make a good impression on your interlocutor.
1. Try to look proud. Or happy.
In a 2011 survey, researchers gave participants about a thousand pictures of people of the opposite sex and asked them to rate their attractiveness.
- Women rated the men in the photo as the most attractive when they were showing pride, but found the happy male faces to be the least attractive.
- For their part, men named women who looked happy as the most attractive, and those who radiated a sense of pride as the least attractive.
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