Have you been having some trouble getting some digits lately when you ask a girl out? Maybe you should check what music is playing. That's what French psychologists found. They published their research in the journal Psychology of Music.
First the researchers found a guy who was rated average looking by a group of women. Then that average Antoine talked about a couple of food products with 87 different women, aged 18 to 20. But before the conversation, half the women heard this romantic French tune: Je L'aime a Mourir.
The other half heard this song that most in France agree is neutral: L'heure du Th谷, or Tea Time.
After talking, Antoine pulled each one aside and asked for her phone number. Only 28 percent of the women who heard the tea song gave out their info. But 52 percent of the women who listened to the love song said yes. So maybe, guys, you should wait for a romantic tune before making your move.
Unfortunately, they didn't test the alternate: what type of music is more likely to get a guy to say yes?
Each of us harbors a unique collection of bacteria, on our outsides and our insides.
Now scientists are finnding that the bacteria you get at birth may depend on how you got here.
Because babies born vaginally, have a different set of microbes than those that arrive by Caesarean-section.
The work appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The uterus is a sterile environment. So, in the womb , babies don't have any bacteria to call their own.
It's only once they enter the world, they began to collect the microbes that will colonize their bodies and help shape their immunity.
But where do these bug come from? scientists sampled the bacterial flora from nine newborns and their mothers.
And they found that babies who passed through the birth canal harbored bacteria that matched their moms' vaginal microbiota.
Whereas babies delivered by C-section had microbes typically found on skin.
the sicentists say the results could help explain why babies that arrive by C-section are more susceptible to certain infention.
Vaginal microbes might be quicker than skin bugs at snagging all the best bodily real estate, a land grab that could keep harmful infections from getting a foot in the door.