The Fat, Depressed, Relaxed, Ovulating Woman

So I was looking at this walking dude on the biomotion lab which is a pretty interesting thing (http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html). After playing with the sad/happy, male/female, anxious/relaxed and heavy/light buttons, I took some snapshots so that I can make a comparison between different factors, placing female, heavy, relaxed and sad in the same column as I thought they have more characteristics in common (see below the post).

So in the first place, the female and the fat guy both have wider hips and in the female this makes the elbows to be positioned closer to the trunk, also the fat, female, relaxed dudes have their feet closer to each other... I assume the reason for that in women besides from the anatomical reasons is social obligations and stuff like oh a lady doesn't stand like this. You can also see tomboys have a bit of a different posture, like they stand with their legs positioned wider than more feminine girls, same is for sitting style.

Feminine? 

Also the feminine figure has more swing in the hips while the male figure has broader chest thus elbows are outward and the upper trunk has more swing. The nervous guy is interesting too, he has all his muscles tensed, and a very fast speed, he will probably be having a lot of hand manipulations like scratching and rubbing, but well i guess i’ll leave the anxiety details for another time.

It’s very cool to see how women’s gait change during ovulation, apparently they walk sexier! Guéguen was really obsessed to prove this so he conducted a study in the good old days that you could film your participants without their previous consent :P so he made his participants walk while there was a man there and he filmed them and measured their LH level.

“Guéguen tested for sexier gaits by measuring two things. First, he wanted to see how long it would take in seconds for the participants to walk down the hallway, the longer it took a woman, the sexier she walked. Second, he wanted to evaluate how sexually attractive her gait was, as rated by two male judges on a scale from one to five. Of note, age did not play a factor.” Result? “Women at peak levels of fertility took more time walking down the long hallway and their gaits were rated as sexier by males!”

Find the details here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/head-games/201210/what-womans-walk-says-about-her