HELEN SMITH: Hypergamy, Cars, and Phone Numbers. “In a carefully controlled experiment (Guéguen and Lamy 2012), researchers tested the idea of how important status is to women. They placed men in expensive cars and instructed them to approach women and ask for their phone numbers. Then they had the men do the same thing in medium- and low-status cars.” Sounds interesting, though I wonder whether they controlled for the men’s confidence, if that’s even possible.