Thursday, July 28, 2005 @12:08 PM
Wed Jul 27, 8:24 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) -
Forget expensive presents or costly jewelry. Wining and dining is the best way for men to woo women, scientists said Tuesday.
Researchers at Imperial College London developed a mathematical formula and modeled 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 theater 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.
pretty interesting article. so it's wining and dining. sounds quite classy. ok, classy is such a trashy word. (this rhymes) what irony.ANYWAY, we had a discussion about politics during gp today. we talked about. duh. the PAP. party = government. haha, and all those BS rumours about how mrs goh has an affair with Durai and the more atrocious one.. mrs goh having an affair with mr lee hsien loong. WTH! this is like far-fetch rumours. madam was complaining how we were so conservative and so we began this whole idea about assasinating lee kuan yew. btw, i'm pretty sure madam has some terrorist blood in her. (inside joke). BUT, we decided that lee kuan yew should deserve to die an old age. then we'll probably get a 5-day holiday to mourn and every year, there will be a "commemorate LKY" day.. extra holiday. not bad an idea. we began had this idea of putting a statue of LKY beside the raffles statue which is beside the merlion. wow. 3 singapore icons at a row. would be quite a sight. what a weird gp lesson. at least it makes the politics topic interesting. politics is so boring.. especially in singapore context. i wouldn't mind the throwing of eggs and bashing ministers up in parliament which will never ever happen here in singapore. So, long live PAP. i love PAP. PAP all the way. i am proud to be a Singaporean ruled under PAP. ok, i think the national day festive season is getting to me. we have about 5 days holiday. (sat, sun, mon-celebration, tue-nat day, wed-day aft nat day) who don't love singapore. ok. more like, who don't love the astronomic (whatever..) that decides the calendar. ps: btw, my fonts are red and white.. i just need stars and cresent to touch up my singapore flag