A new study by evolutionary biologists at Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen (United Kingdom) has figured out how women perceive the dancing abilities of men. The scientists conducted the study on 30 men who were asked to dance to a drum beat and used their sophisticated cameras to record shape-throwing of those men.

After that they decided to animate each dancer as a gender-neutral avatar and those dancing avatars were later showed to women to rate the dancers. It was found that the Running Man, the Sprinkler Dance, the Shuffle and the Macarena are all that are required to entice a lady to make love with you.

The study certainly holds significance for men who desperately want to attract women with their dance moves. The study has provided detailed information about dance moves that drive women wild and the ones that drive them away.

The men in the study were filmed with 3D cameras to record their dance moves. Of the 30 men in the study, 19 are aged between 18 and 35. The researchers decided to turn the dancers into avatars in order to ensure that the women were not swayed by the physical attractiveness of the man.

The women who were showed the avatars were very impressed with the moves of men who made varied and large movements with their neck and trunk. Also, varied movements in the wrist and left shoulder along with movements with the right knee were rated high by the women.

Too much movement with the arms was among those moves that were perceived as bad ones by women. Men who didn't move enough and kept their arms and legs close to their body were perceived negatively by the women.

The researchers said an ideal example of the dance moves rated attractive by women is Michael Jackson's 'Rock With You'.