Women are twice as likely to accept a date from a stranger if they have just heard a romantic song, according to a study

一项研究显示，女人在听到一首浪漫情歌后，接受陌生人的约会请求几率，竟是未听情歌时的两倍!

French psychologist Nicolas Gueguen recruited) 183 female students, aged¹ 18 to 20, telling them they were taking part in a market research test with one other person. They were told their research partner was late and asked to wait in a room alone where either a love song or a pop song with no romantic overtones was played. The pair spent five minutes with a researcher discussing different biscuits before the scientist made an excuse to leave the room at the University of South Brittany. The actor then asked the female for a date.

法国心理学家尼古拉斯·格古恩招募来183名年龄从18到20岁的女性，并告诉她们即将参与的是一项需要其他人配合的市场调查。她们相继被告知她们的研究搭档迟到了，需要她们去一个单独的房间等一会儿。毫无例外，这个房间时刻都在播放着歌曲，有时是罗曼蒂克的情歌，有时则是毫无浪漫气息的流行音乐。搭档的男演员与这名女性，以及一名研究人员会花五分钟左右的时间讨论一下不同的点心，然后研究人员找借口离开南布列塔尼大学的这个房间。最后就是男演员向这位女性提出约会的请求。

Around 52 per cent of the women who had listened to romantic music gave him their phone number compared to 28 per cent who had heard"neutral" music, it was reported in the journal Psychology² of Music.

结果，有52%在听罗曼蒂克歌曲的女性给男性自己的电话号码，而与此相对，在只有28%听了非情歌歌曲的女性肯给对方自己的号码。该项关于情歌催情效果的研究结果已经在《音乐心理学》杂志上发表。

The study only looked at the effect of romantic musician women. Professor Adrian North, a psychologist at Heriot Watt³ University, said the influence of music on romance⁴ was harder to study in men. He explained: "The danger is if you do the same experiment with blokes, all the men will say yes.”

不过，这项研究目前只是针对女性对情歌的反映而做出的调查。在赫瑞瓦特大学任职的艾德里安·诺斯教授、心理学家说情歌作用在男性身上没有什么效果，他解释道:“想在男性身上进行这个试验可太危险了，因为他们但凡看到约会对象往往会欣然接受!来者不拒!”