Publication Date
2015
Description
The present research examined how being described as a dancer affects Black and White men and women’s assessed mate value in two studies. Study 1 examined evaluations of men by women and study 2 examined evaluations of women by men. Based on prior research examining how dancers are perceived and how body movements affect social perceiver’s evaluations of others, men and women described as dancers were expected to receive better ratings. Additionally, race of the individual being assessed was not expected to have any impact on mate value ratings. The results were consistent with the hypotheses. Men and women described as dancers received higher ratings than men and women described as non-dancers. Static manipulations of dancing ability also lead to evolutionary theory based evaluations of men and women.
Journal
Human Ethology Bulletin
Volume
30
Issue
2
First Page
10
Last Page
20
Department
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Wade, T. Joel; Weinstein, Erin; Dalal, Nina; and Salerno, Kelsey J.. "I Can Dance: Further Investigations of the Effect of Dancing Ability on Mate Value." Human Ethology Bulletin (2015) : 10-20.