Declaring love boosts sex appeal

The secret to successful flirting is letting someone know how you feel Telling someone you fancy 'I really like you' could make him or her find you more attractive, research suggests. Making eye contact and smiling have a similar effect, says Aberdeen University psychologist Dr Ben Jones. His study, involving 230 men and women, found such social cues - which signal how much others fancy you - play a crucial role in attraction. The work will appear in Psychological Science and will be presented at the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool.