6 Love Tips From Anime That Are Supported By Science
1. Act interested and confident!
[Psychologist Dr. Monica Moore] concluded that it's not the most physically appealing people who get approached, but the ones who signal their availability and confidence through basic flirting techniques like eye contact and smiles.
2. Everyone understands the basics
The available evidence suggests that men and women around the world use many of the same nonverbal behaviors to communicate romantic interestsmiling and eye contact do appear to be universal methods used by men and women to convey romantic interest.
3. Eye contact makes everyone fall in love
In two studies, subjects induced to exchange mutual unbroken gaze for 2 min with a stranger of the opposite sex reported increased feelings of passionate love for each other.
4. Gentle touching is the most romantic
The behavior that participants rated as reflecting the most flirtation and the most romantic attraction was the soft face touch, followed by the touch around the shoulder or waist, and then the soft touch on the forearm. The least flirtatious and romantic touches were the shoulder push, shoulder tap, and handshake. Thus, touching that is gentle and informal, and that occurs face-to-face or involves "hugging" behavior, appears to convey the most relational intent.
5. You need to be obvious if you're not in a flirt friendly environment
For each scenario, participants indicated whether they believed the stranger was flirting with them or not. The results revealed significantly higher percentages of "yes" (i.e., flirting) responses when the stranger was in the restaurant bar as opposed to the school hallway (61% vs. 49%) Not surprisingly, given this pattern of results, the scenario that produced the highest percentage of "yes" responses (74%) was that involving a stranger who went out of his or her way to compliment the target while in the "flirt-friendly" setting of a restaurant bar.
6. Being a little tsundere and playing hard to get is your secret weapon
As a result of the interviews, the researchers speculated that the best strategy would be to give a potential date the impression that in general you were hard to get (and therefore a scarce resource worth having) but really enthusiastic about him or her specifically. They tested this notion by using some of the same techniques and found overwhelming evidence to support their hypothesis.
