Tomber en amour

Ditch the chat up lines It can take between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if we fancy someone. But this has little to do with your smooth-talking. As far as attraction goes, here’s how we get the message: # 55% is through body language # 38% is the tone and speed of our voice # Only 7% is through what we say Stare into each others’ eyes New York psychologist, Professor Arthur Arun, has been studying the dynamics of what happens when people fall in love. He has shown that the simple act of staring into each other’s eyes has a powerful impact. He asked two complete strangers to reveal to each other intimate details about their lives. This carried on for an hour and a half. The two strangers were then made to stare into each others eyes without talking for four minutes. Afterwards many of his couples confessed to feeling deeply attracted to their opposite number and two of his subjects even married afterwards. When we are aroused and interested in what we are looking at our pupils dilate. In medieval Italy, women put belladonna into their eyes to make them look bigger. In fact, bella donna means ‘beautiful lady’. However, this is not recommended, as belladonna is a kind of poison! Research has uncovered that there is a correlation in couples between their: # Lung volumes # Middle finger lengths # Ear lobe lengths # Overall ear size # Neck and wrist circumferences # Metabolic rates Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/flirting.shtml