The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133

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Have you seen the type of dancing which is scientifically most attractive to women?

**Rob Henderson** (0:39)
I've not seen this.

**Chris Williamson** (0:40)
According to a study at Northumbria University, the dancers found this one. This is the dance that women found most attractive.

**Rob Henderson** (0:47)
This is a man-dance song.

**Chris Williamson** (1:00)
According to a study by Northumbria University, the dancers women found most attractive were ones who moved their head, neck and torso the most while also mixing up their moves creatively and showing more variation in rhythm. To test this, researchers used motion capture technology on 30 male dancers, turn the movements into computer avatars, and the best dancers were the ones who used their whole body naturally instead of awkwardly repeating the same arm and leg movements.

**Steve Stewart-Williams** (1:22)
Looks like they're dancing to me.

**Chris Williamson** (1:25)
Well, Asian people have got natural rhythm.

**Rob Henderson** (1:27)
Rob, so I imagine that's how you dance. What I was noticing is he's keeping his elbows close to the body. So it looks like- Protecting the femoral arteries. He might be a trained boxer.
Which could be you as well.

**Macken Murphy** (1:40)
I know the guy who did this study, funnily enough. I was just at HBES with him. He's my friend Ismael.
One thing that he was actually talking about was that the dance is quite feminine. This mirrors something that you sometimes see in facial attractiveness research, where the initial assumption is like, masculinity is just going to be amazing, as much masculinity as possible. But then in some areas with some traits, femininity is favored and I think it seems like dancing is in-

**Chris Williamson** (2:08)
Dancing, femininity would be favored.

**Macken Murphy** (2:10)
Well, what would a masculine dance look like?

**Rob Henderson** (2:11)
That's the question.

**Macken Murphy** (2:12)
Throwing yourself around in a mosh pit, is that particularly sexy? Shadow boxing. Shadow boxing.

**Chris Williamson** (2:19)
Shadow boxing.

**Rob Henderson** (2:20)
Yeah.

**Chris Williamson** (2:20)
There's two things that British guys do that I think must give women the Ick more than anything else. One is shadow boxing on the way to a night out, and the other one is football chants in the queue of a nightclub.
Like doing football chants as you walk down the street, I think is just the most vaginally repulsive thing that you can do, but second only to shadow boxing.

**Rob Henderson** (2:43)
Why shadow boxing? What is it about shadow boxing that would give them the...

**Chris Williamson** (2:46)
Well, it's this...

**Rob Henderson** (2:47)
I share that intuition, but what is it about?

**Chris Williamson** (2:49)
What I think is it's guys posturing how hard they are, but look at how formidable and aggressive I would be if only it wasn't air that I was fighting.

**Rob Henderson** (3:00)
There's no opponent.

**Macken Murphy** (3:01)
I think that it ruins the positive illusion that they actually could win a fight. It's like, oh, I'm the thing.

**Rob Henderson** (3:06)
They're even losing their shadow boxing style. Yeah, exactly. They're like this. How many punches do you have to throw at this invisible person?

**Chris Williamson** (3:14)
Does looks maxing give women the yick, Rob?

**Rob Henderson** (3:17)
I think it does. I'd be curious to hear Macken's thoughts, Steve as well, on this, which is the clavicular, the looks maxing influencer. He became very popular through propagating this idea of looks maxing, bone smashing, optimizing. He told the New York Times that he is now sterile because he's injected himself with so many chemicals.
Presumably, he thinks it's worth it, though. I recently wrote a piece suggesting that this gives women the yick and that people mistakenly think that clavicular is attracting women because he revamped his physical appearance. I actually think that most of that attention he's receiving from women is due to the fame. He got famous through promoting looks maxing, and people mistakenly think it's the looks and not the fame that draw the women to him. For an ordinary man, like a clavicular fan, who's doing all of the same looks maxing protocol, the bone smashing, the injections, the...