Love Lab: Your best and worst chat-up lines?
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If you struggle to think up ways of kick starting a conversation with the opposite sex, some scientists believe they have the answer.
There are two scientifically tested methods for melting someone's heart - mirroring their movements and disagreeing and then agreeing with everything they say.
And continuing our Love Lab experiments, Michael Mosley's volunteers tried out both theories.
When we see people copying our actions it switches on special nerve cells in the brain called mirror neurons, creating empathy for other people and aiding the romantic process.
The disagree/agree experiment, based on a study from the 1960s, suggests that disagreeing for most of an encounter and then agreeing at the end relieves anxiety, boosting feelings of attraction.
In the case of our Lab Rats, both theories seemed to work.
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But surely there's an easier way? What are the chat-up lines that have worked for you? And which have seen you shot down in flames? Add your comments.
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