India, Feb. 24 -- The portrayal of the brooding man with seething rage may be attractive in pop culture, from Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders to the unhinged Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Even BookTok's popular romance books spare no expense in creating male characters who 'hate everyone but the female lead.' Anger has long been romanticized, even in Indian pop culture, dating back to the 70s with Amitabh Bachchan's Angry Young Man era.

But, in reality, anger in men is a major turn-off. A study published in Evolutionary Psychology reveals that men's anger actually makes them appear less intelligent to women. Let's see why this happens.

The study examined 148 heterosexual couples with participants in the age group of 18 to 80 years ...