Wining and dining best way to woo women

Reuters ^ | Tue Jul 26,10:06 AM ET | unknown

[Redcitizen]

LONDON (Reuters) - Forget expensive presents or costly jewellery. Wining and dining is the best way for men to woo women, scientists said on Tuesday.

Researchers at Imperial College London developed a mathematical formula and modelled courtship as a sequential game to find the best way to impress the ladies.

Their results show that offering an expensive present signals the man's serious intentions but he must be wary of being exploited by gold-diggers who will dump him after receiving the gift.

"Guys are less likely to offer expensive gifts to females they don't have a long-term interest in. And girls won't be impressed with cheap gifts. By offering expensive but worthless gifts, such as dinner and theatre trips, the male pays no cost if the invitation isn't accepted," said Dr Peter Sozou, of University College London (UCL).

If women are not interested they are unlikely to accept the invitation, according to the research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.

The researchers said giving gifts was a feature of courtship in humans and other species to impress females. Physical attraction is an important element but offering gifts also helps.

"Our analysis shows there is evolutionary logic in men 'burning money' to impress the girl," said Professor Robert Seymour of UCL's department of mathematics.

[MinorityRepublican]

Is that the type of woman you want to attract?

Like it or not, women are generally like this (99% of women.) Women are attracted to the guy with the best personality. Men tend to be attracted to women with best looks.

Women are not attracted to men who are timid, nice, honest and respectful.

[Miss Behave]

You are both TOO funny.

[doodad]

I have a chocolate cake with a molten dark chocolate center that ooozes out served with a freash raspberry paste that never got a complaint yet

Too complicated. At that point I am getting tired. j/k

[Miss Behave]

And OK OK, you guys have broken me down under the hot lights.

I like shoes and purses, but not as much as I like digging in the dirt and scratching my rearex.

[GVnana]

It's not the food. Or the wine. It's the conversation and undivided attention.

That's right. But men will blow it if they talk about themselves too much.

[Petronski]

Women are not attracted to men who are timid, nice, honest and respectful.

The best women are attracted to precisely that.

[Petronski]

They sound like economists to me...econometricians, to be precise.

[Feiny]

It was my birthday yesterday & I got both a delicious dinner & gorgeous jewelry!!!

[Miss Behave]

PRECISELY, Ski. Word.

[The SISU kid]

Sometimes guys just can't win...

Whadda ya mean SOMETIMES???

[AnOldCowhand]

Develop an after date questionare.

Oooh, yeah. Good idea...That'll go over well. But, we still have to overcome the initial problem for most engineers - getting the date in the first place.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Stakes for my tomato jungle too... I forgot that one.

Petronski--She's going to take you for every garden supply you own! You've GOT to learn to say "NO!"

Next, she'll be wanting you to spread peat moss. And till the soil. She'll take your property via eminent domain "for the public good." You'll have no time for fishing, mon. Run while you can! RUN!

[Petronski]

LOL


Try decaf.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"By offering expensive but worthless gifts, such as dinner and theatre trips, the male pays no cost if the invitation isn't accepted," said Dr Peter Sozou, of University College London (UCL)."


This prof is so WRONG. Time and attention and genuine emotional involvement is far from worthless.

More important than offering or accepting baubles cheap or costly, women need to give men cues--especially holding his gaze and smiling! -- to show a man it's OK to approach. Women who will just do this will find themselves asked to dance, chatted up etc. much more often than those who make the man take a risk of public rejection by not signaling her interest in this crucial way.

...Speaking as a man who has studied this under the most exacting laboratory conditions -- let me outta this test tube! ;^)

[ken5050]

Wine and dine an Irish lass with a seven course dinner...a six pack and a boiled potato...(very old joke)..

BTW... can anybody explain what is with all these commercials for KY personal body lubricant? Does it work? Did they repackage the jelly?

[cyborg]

That's my ideal man!

[AnOldCowhand]

They sound like economists to me...econometricians, to be precise.

I dunno...Modeling as a game has engineer written all over it. But, I must confess, I don't know any econometricians.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"The worm has turned."

An upward turn I hope!!

[Peach]

LOLOL!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

> Women are not attracted to men who are timid, nice, honest and respectful.

The best women are attracted to precisely that.

No woman is attracted to that. Some are willing to settle for it, but they will never forgive him.