THIS ONE SIMPLE THING CAN MAKE YOU LOOK SEXIER!

Forget the myth of the bad boy, a new study from the University of Guelph says if you want to get some you should just be nice.

Researchers from the University of Guelph and Nipissing University in Canada interviewed about 800 people regarding their relationships and propensity for helping others.

“This research is the first to show that altruism may translate into real mating success in Western populations, that altruists have more mates than non-altruists,” Pat Barclay, a professor at the University of Guelph, told Canada Journal.

The study, called “Altruism predicts mating success in humans” was published July 18 in the British Journal of Psychology. It was led by Professor Steven Arnocky from Nipissing University in North Bay Ontario who partnered with researchers from the University of Guelph.

But for women who be looking at adding a little sugar to their spice, there is one hitch to the findings.

“It’s a more effective signal for men than for women,” says Barclay.

The popular anonymous columnist Girl on the Net, who has written for publications such as Glamour, The New Statesman and The Guardian has wrestled with the idea of the “bad boy” caricature being more attractive to women often. In a recent column, she took issue with a article from Vice writer Diana Tourjee called “Why Woman Want to F**k Bad Boys” in which Tourjee cited research from Ghent University in Belgium that purported to find that harmful or dangerous behavior made men more appealing sexual partners, at least in the short term.