Our Visual System Is A 'Sensitive Lie Detector'
Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 03:50
in Psychology & Sociology
The consistency of the whole appearance rather than the attractiveness of the parts is not just saying, it's science, according to a study where participants were shown schematic point-light displays that depict a person using 15 moving dots. The representation conveyed both the individual characteristics of a person's movements and their individual body shape. The team isolated these two areas and separately measured the attractiveness of individual movement styles as well as individual body shapes based on ratings obtained from his research participants. The researchers then combined the movement style of one person with the body shapes of another person and collected attractiveness ratings from these "hybrid walkers". read more