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  Risk takers 25 April 2005  
Do they get the girls?

If you think that driving fast or climbing up a perilous ledge is the way to impress a woman, then think again.

A American study has found that whilst saving a kitten from a tree will get the girls, taking unnecessary risks won’t necessarily make them swoon. 

Jenni speaks to Peter Ayton, Professor of Psychology at City University and Dorothy Einon, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University College London about the role that risk taking can play in our mating, and how much this kind of study can tell us.


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