Ladies, if you want a man at your feet, wear high heels.

Research shows that men are more likely to help a woman wearing heels than one in flats.

This assistance ranges from taking part in a survey, to chasing after a woman who has dropped a glove.

French researcher Nicholas Guéguen said, “Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful influence on men’s behavior.”

Professor Guéguen first pointed out that men were much more likely to agree to fill in a questionnaire when stopped in the street by a woman in heels. And the higher the heels, the more willing they were.

When the women doing the survey were in flats, just 25 of the 60 men took part.

A two-inch heel made them more amenable, with 36 out of the 60 that were approached agreeing to answer the woman’s questions.

But when the heels rose to almost four inches, the number of male volunteers rose to 49 out of 60, or as Guéguen put it, “Men responded more favorably to the survey request as soon as the length of her heels increased.”

Tellingly, heel height had no effect on women’s odds of agreeing to do the survey.

In another experiment, men were almost twice as likely to return a glove to a woman if she was in high heels.

Some 56 out of 60 men stopped or chased down a female who dropped a glove while walking ahead of them in four-inch heels.

The professor from the University of South Brittany said that men may see offering help as a non-threatening way of making contact with an attractive female.

His final experiment involved watching how long it took men standing drinking in a bar to approach a woman sitting alone at a nearby table.

A woman in high heels was chatted up almost twice as quickly as one in sensible shoes, the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior reports.

男性更愿帮助穿高跟鞋的女性

女士们，如果你找男人为你效劳，那就穿高跟鞋吧。

研究发现，比起穿平底鞋的女性，男性更愿意对穿高跟鞋的女性伸出援手。

这些帮助形式不一，有参与调查，也有追上丢手套的女性将手套还给她等等。

法国研究人员尼古拉斯·盖根说，“女性的鞋跟高度对男性行为有巨大影响。”

盖根教授首先指出，男性在路上被穿高跟鞋的女性拦下后更容易同意填调查表；并且鞋跟越高越容易被说服。

女性穿平底鞋做调查时，60名男性中只有25名参与。

两英寸高的鞋跟使男性更加积极，60名男性中有36名同意回答调查问卷。

但是当鞋跟增加到接近四英寸时，60名男性中志愿参与人数增加到49名。或许，如盖根教授所说，“女性一穿上高跟鞋，男性就积极回应她们的问卷调查了。”

能说明问题的是，鞋子高度对女性是否同意参与调查没有影响。

另一项实验中，如果女性穿高跟鞋，男性帮她拾回手套的可能性是不穿高跟鞋的两倍。

如果一名穿四英寸高跟鞋的女性走在前面丢了手套，60名男性中约有56名会拦住她或者追上去告诉她。

这位来自南布列塔尼大学的教授说，男性把援手帮助视为一种与女神搭讪的好办法。

他最后的一项实验是观察站在酒吧里喝酒的男性多长时间下定决心去和临桌的独身女性搭讪。

这份发表在《性行为档案》上的研究报告显示，穿高跟鞋的女性被搭讪的速度几乎是穿普通鞋女性的两倍。

    【施加】

    shījiā

    exert

    use (influence, authority, etc.) forcefully or effectively

    【顺服的】

    shùnfú de

    amenable

    ready or willing to answer, act, agree