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Dear Dan,

I am happily married and was never much for the bar scene. But I do wonder if those cheesy pickup lines (lời tán tỉnh) actually work—"If I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me" and so on. I can't imagine anyone would buy such transparently empty (rỗng tuếch) flattery (nịnh bợ, tâng bốc), but these lines are so common that they must be doing something. Any insight?

—Barbara

I'm no expert here, but my guess is that these kinds of pickup lines work much better than you might expect. Some interesting research shows that we love getting compliments (lời khen), that we are better disposed toward people who give us compliments and that we like those people even when we know that the compliments are insincere. So beyond the pickup lines, the real question is why we don't give compliments more frequently. After all, they're free, and they make the recipient happy. Try out some pickup lines and compliments on your husband for the next few weeks, and let me know how it works out.

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