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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Pooch Dog Declares Confusion and Inability to Process Fertility Study and Asks Someone, ANYONE to Help!
For men whose chat-up lines aren't working, it could simply be a case of bad timing. Psychologists have determined that women are most likely to give their phone number to a male stranger when they are likeliest to get pregnant.
Researchers recruited handsome young men to experimentally hit on women on a street corner to determine whether fertility affects receptivity to male advances.
Large amounts of research have shown that women are more responsive to masculine voices, faces, and odours when they're fertile, but no studies have probed the obvious outcome of such inclinations, says Nicolas Guéguen, a psychologist at the University of South Brittany, France.
"These studies did not focus on women's behaviour. It's the first study to test the role of the menstrual cycle on courtship request, in a real social context and not in laboratory," he told New Scientist.
To bridge that gap, he asked five handsome 20-year-old men - winnowed down from a larger group rated for attractiveness by 28 women - to ask unsuspecting females for a date.
On sunny summer days, the hunks approached the first young woman they saw on a street corner and delivered a standard pick-up line:
"Hello. My name's Antoine. I just wanted to say that I think you're really pretty. I have to go to work this afternoon, and I was wondering if you would give me your phone number. I'll phone you later and we can have a drink together someplace."
If she said yes, "Antoine" responded, "See you soon," and left. Rejections were given a similarly cheery standard response: "Too bad. It's not my day. Have a nice afternoon!"
Less than a minute after the encounter, a female researcher approached the woman and clued her into the experimental nature of the encounter, asking her to fill out a short survey.
Questions gauged age, contraception use, days since her last period or pregnancy status - none of which measured her likely dismay at the deception.
After analyzing responses from 455 women - only 51 declined the survey - Guéguen noticed a couple of trends.
Overall, 8.6% of the women who filled out a survey gave out their phone numbers. Rough odds, considering the men were judged as hunks.
Women off the pill accepted offers twice as often as women on the pill (5.8% as opposed to 12%), perhaps a reflection of the likelihood that women on the pill are more likely to have men in their lives than women not taking birth control.
A more interesting trend emerged when Guéguen analysed the data according to a women's fertility. Among women off the pill, those in their fertile phase accepted 21.7% of advances, while women in the midst of their periods gave out their numbers to just 7.8 % of men, a significant statistical difference that did not exist for women on the pill.
Guéguen is cautious in his interpretations, but the study seems to offer real-world behavioural support for studies showing that women are most receptive to advances when they are likely to get pregnant.
Hormones could play a role, as estradiol (a form of oestrogen) and progesterone levels wax and wane during a woman's cycle, and most birth control pills contain progesterone. But Guéguen worries that a woman's relationship status will confound such associations, since single women could be less likely to be on birth control.
To firm up the results, he is also testing the effect in an environment where men might have a better chance of winning a woman's heart, or at least her cellphone number
"Twenty-year-old women were approached by 20-year-old males in nightclubs and solicited to dance with them during the period when slow songs were played," Guéguen says.
Until this study comes out, guys may want to focus their attention on less personal cues to a women's interest.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16262-fertile-women-more-open-to-corny-chatup-lines.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=life
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