Researchers Discover Irresistible Dance Moves

sciencehabit writes "To find out if certain dance moves are more attractive to women than others, researchers recruited a bunch of college guys and used motion-capture to create avatars of them dancing. When women watched the avatars (2 videos included in story), the men they found most attractive were those who kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs. The researchers say dancing is thus an honest signal to women of the man's strength and health, just as it is in crabs and hummingbirds, who also move in special ways to attract mates."

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Second purpose of my dance

[ciaran_o_riordan]

> without flailing their arms and legs

That's all well and good for impressing the ladies, but how then am I supposed to scare of my competition?

Re:this is /.

[sznupi]

"Kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs" seems useful in adapting our ways to attracting mates, though. Seems like the moves might be quite doable while sitting on a couch.

Our generation and dance

[Anonymous Coward]

My mother asked me why our generation never came up with any dances. Her generation had the Twist, the Mashed Potato, etc.

I replied that Micheal Jackson killed dance. Nobody else could move like him, so we all gave up and just mosh and twitch randomly.