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Does romantic music have an effect on us?

If you are trying to make a date but your partner is reluctant, try using music. A French study published a few months ago in the journal Psychology of Music revealed that love ballads predispose women to accept a date .

To prove it, Nicolas Guéguen and Jacob Céline, from the University of Bretagne-Sud, together with Lubomir Lamy, from the University of Paris-Sud, tested the power of listening to romantic songs on 87 single women aged 18-20 years. . The results showed that if they listened to romantic background music before meeting an attractive young man who asked for the phone number to have an appointment, the volunteers were more predisposed to answer affirmatively (52%) than if they listened to a "neutral" song. (28%) .

Guéguen and Jacob had previously shown that using romantic songs as background music in a flower shop makes male customers spend more money.

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