Evolution and functions of human dance

B Fink, B Bläsing, A Ravignani… - Evolution and Human …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dance is ubiquitous among humans and has received attention from several disciplines.
Ethnographic documentation suggests that dance has a signaling function in social …

Mate assessment based on physical characteristics: a review and reflection

CD Watkins - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mate choice, and sex differences in romantic behaviours, represented one of the first major
applications of evolutionary biology to human behaviour. This paper reviews Darwinian …

[图书][B] Sensehacking: How to use the power of your senses for happier, healthier living

C Spence - 2021 - books.google.com
The world expert in multisensory perception on the remarkable ways we can use our senses
to lead richer lives' Talks total sense, lots of fun facts, right up there with the best of the …

Waist-to-hip ratio as supernormal stimuli: Effect of contrapposto pose and viewing angle

F Pazhoohi, AF Macedo, JF Doyle, J Arantes - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2020 - Springer
In women, the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an indicator of attractiveness, health, youthfulness,
and reproductive potential. In the current study, we hypothesized that viewing angle and …

A limit to sustained performance constrains trill length in birdsong

J Sierro, SR de Kort, IR Hartley - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
In birds, song performance determines the outcome of contests over crucial resources. We
hypothesized that 1) sustained performance is limited within song, resulting in a …

Arching the back (lumbar curvature) as a female sexual proceptivity signal: An eye-tracking study

F Pazhoohi, JF Doyle, AF Macedo, J Arantes - Evolutionary Psychological …, 2018 - Springer
It is common in studies of human mate preference to have participants judge the
attractiveness of photographs in which models adopt a neutral facial expression or a neutral …

EMOKINE: A software package and computational framework for scaling up the creation of highly controlled emotional full-body movement datasets

JF Christensen, A Fernández, RA Smith… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
EMOKINE is a software package and dataset creation suite for emotional full-body
movement research in experimental psychology, affective neuroscience, and computer …

Investigating the link between television viewing and men's preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua

T Thornborrow, JL Jucker, LG Boothroyd… - Evolution and Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
The different levels of media access in otherwise very similar villages in rural Nicaragua
provided a natural laboratory to explore the effect of television (TV) access on men's …

Both Upper and Lower Limb Movements Contribute to Aesthetics of the Piqué Arabesque in Ballet

Y Kawano, CF Lin… - Journal of Dance …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aimed to identify the factor structures—which are the predominant frameworks for
describing the basic dimensions of a concept—that contribute to the aesthetics of body …

Gender and Dance Motivation as determinants of Dance Style choice

AJ Coronel, RM Tiglao, R Solayao… - American Journal of …, 2022 - journals.e-palli.com
This study aims to determine the relationship between gender and dance motivation to
dance style choices of 85 students taking Bachelor of Performing Arts at City College of …