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Swaggers, sways part of language of lust |
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Written by Owen Moritz, McClatchy-Tribune
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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Shakira got it right: Hips don't lie.
It's not just what you've got, it's how you move it that gets the other sex's heart racing, according to a study by a New York University psychology professor.
For women, that means shaking your booty like Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez or Shakira; for men, put some swagger in your walk.
NYU's Kerri Johnson and her colleague, Louis Tassinary of Texas A&M University, conducted studies among scores of subjects to try to identify "particular body cues" — beyond their looks — that make men and women attractive.
Their conclusion, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Shape is important, but it's the wiggle in women and the strut in men that are the most powerful "cues" to their attraction.
Studying the reaction of more than 700 people to shadow figures, videos of humans in motion and a variety of animations, the researchers found that females were rated more attractive if their hips swayed as they walked, while males were ranked highest if they displayed a certain saunter.
It's "not by accident," Johnson observed, that audiences thrill to the way Latin sensation Shakira shakes her hips as she sings those sultry songs.
Among male action heroes, those with the right amount of swagger are current "007" Daniel Craig and Mel Gibson. | Only registered users can write comments.
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