What Is a 'Neutral Expression'?

Speaking of looks, looking, and thinking about looking, there's an interesting study out today from Scotland. It seems some dude found that we judge men to be attractive based partially on how other women rate them. (Not news.) What I think is interesting, however, is that men tend to judge other men poorly if other women think highly of them. Observe:

"Psychologist Ben Jones, of the University of Aberdeen, and his team gave women a test in which they had to choose the more attractive of pairs of male faces and to rate how much more handsome they found them.

"They were then shown a short video in which the same faces were displayed. But each face was being looked at by a woman smiling or one showing a bored or neutral expression. The researchers repeated the initial test.

" 'We found that the slideshow caused women to become more attracted to the men who were being smiled at by other women,' Jones said.

"But when men were asked to look at the same male faces, those who got the approving female glances became less appealing."

Dudes, stop the hatin'. (At least try this out in your office, as I just did. Bundles of fun for the whole cube-amily.)