Biomechanical strategies to maximize gait attractiveness among women

ABSTRACT: Physical attractiveness is a key factor in social communication, and through this communication process, we attractively brand and express ourselves. Thus, this study investigated the biomechanical strategies used by women to express gait attractiveness. Our aim was to extend the current literature by examining this aspect of dynamic motion from the perspective of expressed, rather than perceived attractiveness. In this regard, we obtained motion capture data from 17 women, including seven professional fashion models. The participants walked on a treadmill under two conditions: 1) a normal condition in which they were instructed to walk as casually as possible; and 2) an attractive-conscious condition where they were asked to walk as attractively as possible. Then, we used whole-body kinem

SUBMITTER: Tanabe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932886 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature