Fink Bernhard, Wübker Marieke, Ostner Julia, Butovskaya Marina L, Mezentseva Anna, Muñoz-Reyes José Antonio, Sela Yael, Shackelford Todd K
Institute of Psychology, University of GöttingenGöttingen, Germany.
Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate CognitionGöttingen, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2017 Aug 21;8:1427. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01427. eCollection 2017.
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.
以往的研究表明，男性和女性能够从步态中准确判断男性的体力，而且在对强壮和虚弱男性步行者的吸引力判断上，两性存在差异。女性（而非男性）对强壮男性步行者的吸引力评价高于虚弱男性步行者。在此，我们将这项研究扩展到对智利、德国和俄罗斯的强壮和虚弱男性步行者的评估。男性和女性对虚拟角色的视频进行了力量和吸引力方面的判断，这些虚拟角色以动作捕捉的男性的步行动作进行动画制作。在两个国家（德国和俄罗斯），这些视频还以原始速度的70%（较慢）和130%（较快）的速度播放。步行较强的人被认为比步行较弱的人更强壮且更具吸引力，这种效应与国家无关（但与性别有关）。女性倾向于对步行较强的人给出更高的吸引力评价，而男性倾向于对步行较弱的人给出更高的吸引力评价。此外，德国和俄罗斯的参与者认为步行较强的人在慢速和快速播放时最具吸引力。因此，在不同国家，男性和女性都能从步态中评估男性的力量，尽管他们在对强壮和虚弱男性步行者的吸引力评估上往往存在差异。对男性步态的吸引力评估可能受到特定社会对男性体力强调的影响。
