ANI
 
London, Dec 30: If you are a male and lack the ability to attract other females, then simply get a happy-looking woman to accompany you, for a new study has found that men in the company of smiling women are likely to catch the fancy of other females.

However, the study also suggests that other men may view them as a threat.

According to psychologists, the copycat behaviour is because women do not have confidence on their own judgment.

"If a female has difficulty choosing the best male, she can help herself by seeing how rivals behave," the Mirror quoted Dr Benedict Jones, of Aberdeen University, as saying.

In the study, female volunteers aged about 24 rated pictures of young men's faces.

When they were shown next to a smiling woman, they upped their score by at least 15 per cent.

Such phenomenon has already been seen among fish and birds.

However, the research is the first evidence of such behaviour in humans.

The study has been published in the Biological Sciences journal.