The secret to scoring a second date? Share your dessert!
- Psychologists analysed dining habits of couples on Channel 4 show First Dates
- They compared almost 60 dates where couples shared food with 49 who did not
- Overwhelming majority of those who tasted other’s dishes agreed to meet again
- This was against 42 per cent of couples meeting up again when they didn’t share
Some rely on charm or good looks, but the real secret to securing a second date is to share your food.
Psychologists at Leeds University analysed the dining habits of couples on the Channel 4 series First Dates, where potential partners are set up on blind dates in a restaurant.
They compared almost 60 dates where couples shared food with 49 who did not.
Psychologists at Leeds University analysed the dining habits of couples on the Channel 4 series First Dates (pictured), where potential partners are set up on blind dates in a restaurant
They compared almost 60 dates where couples shared food with 49 who did not. The overwhelming majority of those who tasted each other’s dishes agreed to meet again, against 42 per cent of couples who did not share
The overwhelming majority of those who tasted each other’s dishes agreed to meet again, against 42 per cent of couples who did not share.
Dessert was the most popular dish to split.
‘One person feeding another may represent ‘courtship’ feeding that signals sexual interest,’ wrote the researchers in the journal Appetite.