Louis G. Tassinary, a Texas A&M professor, and Kerri Johnson, a colleague from NYU, collaborated a few years ago to study the science of physical attraction, and though the findings could be considered elderly in Internet years, they stand strong.
Johnson found that body MOVEMENT plays as significant a role in attractiveness as body shape/symmetry.
"When encountering another human, the first judgment an individual makes concerns the other individual's gender," Johnson said. "The body's shape, specifically the waist-to-hip ratio, has been related to gender identification and to perceived attractiveness, but part of the way we make such judgments is by determining whether the observed individual is behaving in ways consistent with our culture's definitions of beauty and of masculinity/femininity. And part of those cultural definitions involves movement."
Maybe if you look real close you can catch some of his swagger.
Johnson's and Tassinary's study involved more than 700 people who took part in five studies measuring levels of attraction. Three of the five included depictions of people walking, and that's where the ratings starting rising.Women shown walking with a "hip sway" -- an innately feminine trait -- were considered 50 percent hotter to the participants, while the perceived attractiveness of men shown strutting with "swagger" -- a stereotypically masculine move -- more than doubled.
"The current findings bolster our understanding of how and why the body is perceived attractive," Johnson continued. "Body cues bring about the basic social perception of sex and gender, and the compatibility of those basic precepts affects perceived attractiveness."
Johnson found that body MOVEMENT plays as significant a role in attractiveness as body shape/symmetry.
"When encountering another human, the first judgment an individual makes concerns the other individual's gender," Johnson said. "The body's shape, specifically the waist-to-hip ratio, has been related to gender identification and to perceived attractiveness, but part of the way we make such judgments is by determining whether the observed individual is behaving in ways consistent with our culture's definitions of beauty and of masculinity/femininity. And part of those cultural definitions involves movement."
Maybe if you look real close you can catch some of his swagger.
Johnson's and Tassinary's study involved more than 700 people who took part in five studies measuring levels of attraction. Three of the five included depictions of people walking, and that's where the ratings starting rising.Women shown walking with a "hip sway" -- an innately feminine trait -- were considered 50 percent hotter to the participants, while the perceived attractiveness of men shown strutting with "swagger" -- a stereotypically masculine move -- more than doubled.
"The current findings bolster our understanding of how and why the body is perceived attractive," Johnson continued. "Body cues bring about the basic social perception of sex and gender, and the compatibility of those basic precepts affects perceived attractiveness."
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