Ideas
By Eric Barker
Barker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree
1) Ladies: have a guy take the photo.
Via In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction:
2) Guys: talk with a friendly girl before the picture is taken.
Via In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction:
3) Have a picture taken of you while telling a fun story and you’ll display more natural emotion.
Via In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction:
4) Women rated men more positively in photos where girls were smiling at them.
(Other men rated these guys as less attractive — that’s jealousy for you.)
Via In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction:
For more on how to look sexier according to science, click here.
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