Researchers, like everyone else, belittle nice guys. Today we learned from a new study that women "really DO" (as the caps-happy Daily Mail puts it) find brooding or pompous men to be sexier than just averagely happy guys. That seemed just a tad unfair, so--based on other studies--we've noted for nice guys some things to do that might possibly increase attractiveness to the opposite sex.
First things first, the current study: British Columbia researchers had 1000 adult participants look at images like this one below of neutrally-dressed assistants. When forced to make a "gut" reaction on "carnal" attraction about who was sexiest in drab beige shirts, women decided that they liked the pictured guy best when he pumped his fists while flexing ("pride") and while he did Charlie Brown sad slump impression ("shame"). Women didn't care for his smiling, yearbook portrait version ("happiness").
As researchers typically like to do, they read into their results, speculating in their study's discussion section (PDF) that the findings implied a link between men's moody posturing and attractiveness to women:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.................
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