What is a relationship if it’s not based on lies and manipulation? If you don’t trick your partner into loving you, then how are you possibly going to keep a girlfriend?

The human mind is a wondrous, inventive and creative thing. It also horribly manipulates you without you even knowing about it.

So read and learn more…

1. Mirroring

This could also be considered responding to social cues. Basically, you should subtly copy her body language that you are interacting with.

Don’t do a cartoonish mimicking of every single thing she’s doing, as insanity is off-putting for most. Remember: subtly.

If she smiles at you, smile back; if she leans back in a relaxed position, fight your impulse to jump on top of her, and instead assume a similar body position.

2. Look Like Her Parents

Yes, if you have a few hundred dollars to invest in plastic surgery, this might be the way to get your partner to love you forever and ever.

Although creepy, science has proven that people are attracted to individuals that remind us of our parents. The creepiness is the result of this effect called imprinting and the mere-exposure effect. Imprinting is when you are initially exposed to a parent and is the only adult you trust.

3. Proximity

It has been found that people that spend extended periods of time around each other in the majority of cases develop some sort of intimate feelings. Also known as the mere-exposure effect, which means familiarity plays an immense role in attraction.

The problem with this technique is you need to be able to distinguish between proximity and creepiness. For example, taking a certain way home because you might bump into the person you’re interested is fine. Hiding in the bushes outside her house and waiting for her to return crosses the line.

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4. If You Walk in Pace

You know, like a sexy two-person marching band, without the instruments, the hats and the cool uniforms. You know what? It’s nothing like a marching band, but it seemed like an appropriate allegory at the time.

Yeah, so if someone is attracted to you, she’ll actually synch up her pace to yours.

5. Certified Friendly

No matter how much you hate them, or loath their “ethos”, “morality” and “decency”, making nice with her friends might be your way into the bosom of her arms.

Once you’re accepted, science says she’ll accept you too.

6. Don’t Worry, Be Happy

A sunny disposition actually plays a huge role in someone liking you. Really?! As if there has never been anything more obvious… people dedicated money and resources to research this? Pft! Anyway, if you’re a happy-go-lucky type of gal, then that will reflect positively on how people view you. Obviously.

7. Act like an asshole

OK, so this is a bit risky. When you eventually meet the women you like, try to show them that you dislike them, just a little, and then come in for the kill, but kill them with kindness. That should get any female swooning over you in no time. This effect is grounded in the gain-loss theory that is based on the contrast of feelings.

Let me elaborate: basically, if you show her you like her and then that you don’t, when you show attraction again it will be more pronounced or, transversely, if you first treat someone with a blasé attitude to begin with, then a show of attraction will be more pronounced. Ultimately, we come to the conclusion yet again that our brains are assholes that are conspiring against us.

8. Hot or Cold

The brain is dumb, an impulsive collection of biological matter that controls everything. And it’s a drunken conductor with brain damage that’s driving your train to Heart-breaks-ville. Comforting, isn’t it?

Well, the brain is so stupid that it can be manipulated simply by holding something warm or cold.
Psychologists have observed an effect called “Priming” which shows that the brain will take external stimuli and use them when making observations. For example, when researchers spoke to their test subjects and mentioned ‘Florida’, ‘Old’, ‘Weak’ and ‘Grey’, people subsequently walked slower.

Here’s how: the researchers gave subjects a cold drink or a hot drink to hold, and then asked the participants to rate a person’s personality if they perceived it as hot or cold. Guess what happened? Yep, you guessed it: the people that held a warm drink saw the person that they were supposed to judge as a warm personality, and the opposite effect was observed when they held a cold drink. What if they held a tepid drink?

In any case, maybe you should consider going to a cosy coffee shop and ordering a warm cupa, instead of a bar (most drinks are served cold, remember. I know you don’t get out much), and your potential partner might cosy up to you.