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In love with someone? The way to their heart is through email

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Meg Ryan in the early days of online dating in You've Got Mail
‘My breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You’ve got mail’ (Picture: Warner Brothers)

Carly Rae Jepsen can sing ‘call me maybe’ all she likes, but Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks were right about the real deal being ‘you’ve got mail’.

Scientists from Indiana University have finally caught up with the iconic 1998 rom-com to prove that the best way to tug at someone’s heart strings is a well composed email.

The researchers were surprised when they found that recipients were more aroused by romantic emails than voicemails.

Alan Dennis and Taylor Wells, the authors of the study, wrote: ‘When writing romantic emails, senders consciously or subconsciously added more positive content… Read the full story


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