男性更愿意对穿高跟鞋的女性伸出援手

Ladies, if you want a man at your feet, wear high heels.

女士们，如果你想有个男人随时为你效劳，那就穿高跟鞋吧。

Research shows that men are more likely to help a woman wearing heels than one in flats.

This assistance ranges from taking part in a survey, to chasing after a woman who has dropped a glove.

French researcher Nicholas Guéguen said: 'Women's shoe heel size exerts a powerful influence on men's behaviour.'

Professor Guéguen first showed that men were much more likely to agree to fill in a questionnaire when stopped in the street by a woman in heels. And the higher the heels, the more willing they were.

When the women doing the survey were in flats, just 25 of the 60 men took part.

A two-inch heel made them more amenable, with 36 out of the 60 that were approached agreeing to answer the woman's questions.

But when the heels rose to almost four inches, the number of male volunteers rose to 49 out of 60, or as Professor Guéguen put it: 'Men responded more favourably to the survey request as soon as the length of her heels increased.'