Blogger Eric Barker pulls out useful tips from the latest psychological research.
Here we've gathered some of his most fascinating insights about sex and attraction, including what attracts people and what you can tell about someone just by looking at them.
Girls really do go crazy for dogs
Nicolas Guégen...conducted four studies (with Serge Ciccotti) to investigate whether the presence of a dog might increase the likelihood of people obliging one of several requests...a man's likelihood of obtaining a woman's phone number increases three-fold when accompanied by a dog.
Source: Psychology Today
From Eric Barker's Barking Up The Wrong Tree. Follow him on Twitter.
Guys are more attracted to girls wearing red
In Experiment 1, men who viewed an ostensible conversation partner in a red versus a green shirt chose to ask her more intimate questions. In Experiment 2, men who viewed an ostensible interaction partner in a red versus a blue shirt chose to sit closer to her.
Source: "Red and romantic behavior in men viewing women" in the European Journal of Social Psychology
From Eric Barker's Barking Up The Wrong Tree. Follow him on Twitter.
Girls are attracted to rich men, while guys couldn't care less about a woman's wealth
The present study experimentally manipulated status by seating the same target model (male and female matched for attractiveness) expressing identical facial expressions and posture in either a 'high status' (Silver Bentley Continental GT) or a 'neutral status' (Red Ford Fiesta ST) motor-car.
Results showed that the male target model was rated as significantly more attractive on a rating scale of 1-10 when presented to female participants in the high compared to the neutral status context. Males were not influenced by status manipulation, as there was no significant difference between attractiveness ratings for the female seated in the high compared to the neutral condition.
Source: "Effect of manipulated prestige-car ownership on both sex attractiveness ratings", from Br J Psychol. 2010 Feb;101(Pt 1):69-80. Epub 2009 Mar 19
From Eric Barker's Barking Up The Wrong Tree. Follow him on Twitter.
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