If you want to get a date, try carrying a guitar. According to a recent study by researchers from the University of South Brittany, the number of women giving their phone numbers doubled when a man was carrying a guitar compared to a man without.

Professor Nicolas Gueguen, a researcher of behavioral science who led the study, hired a 20-year-old man to ask a total of 300 women aged between 18 and 22 for their numbers in a shopping mall.

The man approached the women with the same comment holding different items in hand. For the first 100 women, he was holding a sports bag while for the second 100 women, he was carrying a guitar. The last 100 women were asked for their numbers with empty hands.

The result showed that 31 women out of 100, without hesitance, gave their numbers to the man when he had a guitar, while only 14 gave their number when he was empty-handed. Only nine women gave their number to the man when he was holding a sports bag.

The study led in France aligns with the last year’s research carried out by the University of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion University in Israel. The study showed that the acceptance of a Facebook friend request with a profile picture including a guitar doubled compared to the same person empty handed.

The same theory, however, did not apply when it came to women. The response rate to a female friend requests did not show any difference.

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