Men all over the world may want to know what moves they can throw to attract women. Recently, an experiment has been made to find the answer. 19 men aged 18-35 were filmed in a lab as they danced to a standard disco beat. Then 37 young heterosexual women were shown 15-second clips of the avatars and were asked to judge which dance movements were the most attractive.
So the reslut comes out. Good dancers did wider and bigger movements of the head, neck and torso, and did faster bending and twisting movements of their right knee. In contrast, bad dancers tended to be stiff and plod, and throwing their arms around was no substitute for fast, variable movement of the central body region.
There will be wide cultural variability about the way people dance, but the interest in the core body movements will be the same. The movement of the trunk, the neck and the shoulders give out signals of strength, suppleness and vitality.
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