Female Perceptions of Male Body Movements

Fink, Bernhard; Weege, Bettina; Neave, Nick; Ried, Bettina; Lago, Olival Cardoso Do

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0314-6_16

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“…Women derive quality cues (e.g., physical strength) from men's dance movements and rate these cues as attractive (see for review Hanna 2010;Hugill et al 2010;Fink et al 2014). Comparably, little is known about the relationship of men's personality and women's assessments of dance attractiveness, although some research suggests that aspects of personality are conveyed through dance movements (Fink et al 2012;Hugill et al 2011).…”

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Women’s Attractiveness Perception of Men’s Dance Movements in Relation to Self-Reported and Perceived Personality

Weege

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Pham

et al. 2014

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Recent research on women's ratings of men's dance movements indicates that women derive similar cues of male "quality" (e.g., physical strength) from movement as from faces and bodies. Whether this extends to personality assessment is yet unclear. We recorded dance movements of 80 men using 3D optical motion-capture technology and secured selfreports of men's personality standings. Dance movements were applied to a uniform, shape-standardized virtual humanoid character (avatar) and presented to women as 15-s videos for attractiveness and personality ratings. Women's ratings of dance attractiveness correlated negatively with men's selfreports and women's ratings of men's neuroticism and were positively correlated with men's self-reported extraversion and women's ratings of men's conscientiousness. Men's selfreported personality scores did not correlate with women's ratings of men's personality standings. Findings are discussed with reference to previous research and the social significance of dance movement cues and impression formation.

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Women’s Attractiveness Perception of Men’s Dance Movements in Relation to Self-Reported and Perceived Personality

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Pham

et al. 2014

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“…There is little information available about how gait is perceived in different countries, and most investigations of gait are clinical or sports science studies. In a preliminary study on Brazilian and German women’s attractiveness perceptions of (British) men’s dance movements, Fink et al (2014) reported a positive correlation of Brazilian with German women’s assessments of men’s dance attractiveness, suggesting cross-cultural similarity in dance attractiveness perceptions. Additional analysis revealed a significant difference between Brazilian and German women’s ratings of men’s dance movements, which were attributable to personality of the dancer.…”

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Cross-Cultural Investigation of Male Gait Perception in Relation to Physical Strength and Speed

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Previous research documents that men and women can accurately judge male physical strength from gait, but also that the sexes differ in attractiveness judgments of strong and weak male walkers. Women’s (but not men’s) attractiveness assessments of strong male walkers are higher than for weak male walkers. Here, we extend this research to assessments of strong and weak male walkers in Chile, Germany, and Russia. Men and women judged videos of virtual characters, animated with the walk movements of motion-captured men, on strength and attractiveness. In two countries (Germany and Russia), these videos were additionally presented at 70% (slower) and 130% (faster) of their original speed. Stronger walkers were judged to be stronger and more attractive than weak walkers, and this effect was independent of country (but not sex). Women tended to provide higher attractiveness judgments to strong walkers, and men tended to provide higher attractiveness judgments to weak walkers. In addition, German and Russian participants rated strong walkers most attractive at slow and fast speed. Thus, across countries men and women can assess male strength from gait, although they tended to differ in attractiveness assessments of strong and weak male walkers. Attractiveness assessments of male gait may be influenced by society-specific emphasis on male physical strength.

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“…Participants were 80 men, aged 18-42 years, recruited at Northumbria University (U.K.) as part of a large-scale study on body movement in relation to anthropometry and personality (for related reports see Fink et al, 2012;Fink, Weege, Neave, Ried, & do Lago, 2014;Hufschmidt et al, 2015;Weege, Lange, & Fink, 2012;Weege et al 2015a;Weege, Barges, Pham, Shackelford, & Fink, 2015b). Participants reported that they did not have injuries that might influence their natural movements.…”

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