What happens on the first date: The pulse of love

"While allowing randomly selected couples to meet for the first time in a controlled environment, the scientists measured a wide variety of body signals: gestures, laughter and looks, for example. However, all of this turned out to be little telling about the pulling force between the two. Instead, it was the harmony of pulse and skin conductivity that could be used to predict the perceived attractiveness.

In other words, unconscious, imperceptible and hardly controllable body reactions. And thus perhaps good news for everyone with a dating fear: How you are physically consciously judged on the first date may be relatively irrelevant, as long as your pulse and skin tension are correct."