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08/05/2013
A new survey has found carrying a guitar can increase your chances of getting a date – by a third.
Researchers from the University of South Brittany found that women were 31% were more likely to give their number to a man carrying a guitar, according to the Daily Mail.
This was double the number who would give their number to the same man when he was empty-handed.
Interestingly, however, the technique only works if you are a man as the survey found women were not seen to be any more or less attractive if they carried a musical instrument.
Professor Nicolas Gueguen, who is a researcher in behavioural sciences at the university, led the study. In it, he hired a 20-year-old man to approach 300 women between the ages of 18 and 22 in a shopping centre in Brittany.
The man told each girl they were 'really pretty' and asked for her phone number so they could then arrange a date.
For the first 100 women he spoke to, he was holding a sports bag.
For the next 100 women, he was holding a guitar case, and for the final 100, he asked the women for their number with nothing in his hands.
When the volunteer was carrying nothing, 14% of women gave them his number and when he was carrying the guitar case, 31% shared their number. However, only 9% agreed to give him their number when he was carrying a sports bag.
The latest findings reflect those from a study carried out by the University of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion University last year.
The French researchers attribute these findings to the fact that playing a musical instrument is a sign that the man is intelligent, can learn, or is willing to learn, new skills and has independent hobbies. They believe there may also be a link between how musicians are portrayed in the media, and that holding a guitar is a sign of wealth and status.
(JP/CD)
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Musicians Found To Be More Attractive - Survey
A new survey has found carrying a guitar can increase your chances of getting a date – by a third.
Researchers from the University of South Brittany found that women were 31% were more likely to give their number to a man carrying a guitar, according to the Daily Mail.
This was double the number who would give their number to the same man when he was empty-handed.
Interestingly, however, the technique only works if you are a man as the survey found women were not seen to be any more or less attractive if they carried a musical instrument.
Professor Nicolas Gueguen, who is a researcher in behavioural sciences at the university, led the study. In it, he hired a 20-year-old man to approach 300 women between the ages of 18 and 22 in a shopping centre in Brittany.
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The man told each girl they were 'really pretty' and asked for her phone number so they could then arrange a date.
For the first 100 women he spoke to, he was holding a sports bag.
For the next 100 women, he was holding a guitar case, and for the final 100, he asked the women for their number with nothing in his hands.
When the volunteer was carrying nothing, 14% of women gave them his number and when he was carrying the guitar case, 31% shared their number. However, only 9% agreed to give him their number when he was carrying a sports bag.
The latest findings reflect those from a study carried out by the University of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion University last year.
The French researchers attribute these findings to the fact that playing a musical instrument is a sign that the man is intelligent, can learn, or is willing to learn, new skills and has independent hobbies. They believe there may also be a link between how musicians are portrayed in the media, and that holding a guitar is a sign of wealth and status.
(JP/CD)
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