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Hands up - who hasn't agreed with their date on some issue or other just to get that snog at the end of the evening?

Whether nibbling a side salad when you could have woolfed down the whole menu or hinting that your political beliefs are green whereas in fact you're blue to your blood, we've all been guilty of modifying our behaviour on dates.

It seems being honest about who you are will increase your chances of bagging a second date and having better romantic relationships, according to a study by the department of psychology at Ohio State University.

Students were asked various questions ranging from personal and relationship satisfaction to secret keeping and discussing emotions with partners over a two-week study.

Unsurprisingly the results showed that if you don't lie and are comfortable with who you are, your partner is likely to mirror this behaviour resulting in a happy and successful relationship - or night depending on how far you want to go.

However, more interestingly it was found that there was a gender difference in our general authenticity and how we affect our partners. Women who were true to themselves had little or no affect on how some men behaved towards them.

Amy Brunell explains: "Typically in dating and marital relationships, the women tend to 'be in charge' of intimacy in the relationship," but it seems that our male counterparts are not affected by this and don't really care if we are lying or not just as long as they get what they want.

So should you, in the game of dating and using the words of William Shakespeare "to thine own self be true"? Well yes as it's hard to keep up with too many white lies - though you should remember most men don't really care either way.

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