ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Cross-Cultural Investigation of Male Gait Perception in Relation to Physical Strength and Speed.
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- The Psychological Nature of Female Gait Attractiveness.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Biomechanical strategies to maximize gait attractiveness among women.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Do the Maasai perceive weak walkers to be stronger and more attractive than strong walkers? A re-analysis of Fink et al. (2019).Biology letters · 2019Article
- Reply to Durkee: 'Do the Maasai perceive weak walkers to be stronger and more attractive than strong walkers? A re-analysis of Fink et al. (2019)'.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Physician Gender Differences in Processing Surgical Risk Features in Videos of Standardized Patients.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2019Article
- Assessment of physical strength from gait: data from the Maasai of Tanzania.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Handgrip Strength as a Darwinian Fitness Indicator in Men.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
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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