Posted on 09/14/2010 7:22:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Using computer-generated avatars, psychologists say they have unlocked the dance moves that will capture a woman's heart. Apparently the speed of a man's right knee and the size and variety of movements of the neck and torso are key, they suggest.
Throughout the animal kingdom examples abound of males performing courtship dances, attracting females with displays of health and skill. Dances are sexy among humans as well, and scientists wanted to codify what moves ladies like to see in men.
Psychologists at Northumbria University in England filmed 19 male volunteers, ages 18 to 35, with a 12-camera system as the men danced to a German dance track, the kind of drum rhythm one might hear clubbing. None of them were professional dancers.
The men also wore 38 small reflectors all over their body, which the systems monitored to capture the motions of the dancers in three dimensions — the same technique filmmakers used to help create the character of Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" movies. These movements were mapped onto featureless, white, gender-neutral humanoid characters, or avatars.
This way, the 35 heterosexual women the scientists also recruited could rate 15-second clips of each dancer without being prejudiced by each guy's individual level of physical attractiveness. Each dancer was judged on a scale of one to seven, from extremely bad to extremely good.
Guys whose swagger included larger and more variable movements of the neck and torso were considered attractive by the ladies.
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Too bad for the women that all the men who dance well are gay.
My right knee moves like the wind.
A BFW will trump a good dancer every single time. (Big Fat Wallet)
“Apparently the speed of a man’s right knee .. are key, they suggest.
My right knee moves like the wind.”
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Child’s play.
The speed of my right patella on the dance floor is such, that the distance covered, has to be measured in parsecs.
“Too bad for the women that all the men who dance well are gay.”
I heard that Zero is a really, really good dancer!
That looks more like Urkel than Mickey.
My hubby can’t dance a bit, but he’s still sexy as all get out.
Well, here’s another piece of news that will make fat men who can’t dance happy....
TITLE : Fat men enjoy longer lasting sex scientific research show
King Tut (King Tut)
Now when he was a young man,
He never thought he’d see
People stand in line to see the boy king.
(King Tut) How’d you get so funky?
(funky Tut) Did you do the monkey?
Born in Arizona,
Moved to Babylonia (king Tut).
(king Tut) Now, if I’d known
they’d line up just to see him,
I’d trade in all my money
And bought me a museum. (king Tut)
Buried with a donkey (funky Tut)
He’s my favorite honkey!
Born in Arizona,
Moved to Babylonia (king Tut)
Dancin’ by the Nile, (Disco Tut)
The ladies love his style, (boss Tut)
Rockin’ for a mile (rockin’ Tut)
He ate a crocodile.
RE: Too bad for the women that all the men who dance well are gay.
This is going to disappoint my pretty young niece, she always had a crush on Gene Kelly or anyone like him :)
Dancing is just the beginning of the job.
That’s because dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal idea.
All comedies end in a wedding. And men dancing are generally comedies.
We saw this on “Red Eye” last week, complete with the computer simulations. It was hilarious!
Neither avatar impressed me! But I love to dance with my husband...waltz, two step, jitterbug. Those dances really show rythm.
Piffle..I have danced with a lot of very good non professional male dancers who were definitely not gay.
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