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Use an opening line.
This is important. And by the way, the simple straightforward approach is best-at least this is what women said in a study involving 1,000 of them conducted by psychologist Chris Kleinke and reported in national magazines.
(Another study by psychologist Charlene Muehlenhard of Texas A&M University found the straightforward approach was rated highest by men, too.)
Kleinke's survey of college women found that they rate these as the best opening lines:
"Hi."
"I feel a little embarrassed about this, but I'd like to meet you."
"Do you want to dance?"
"That's a very nice dress you have on."
"Can I buy you lunch?"
Smug or flippant lines were rated as the biggest turn-off, these heading the list:
"You remind me of a woman I used to date."
"Bet I can outdrink you."
"I play the field and I think I just hit a home run with you."
"Your place or mine?"
Muehlenhard also found that women were turned off by men who kept pestering them for dates after they politely turned them down.
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