Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective
Abstract Beauty is related to our lives in various ways and examining it from an interdisciplinary approach is essential. People are very concerned with their appearance. A widely accepted beauty ideal is that the thinner an individual is, the more beautiful they are. However, the effect of continuo...
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| author | Sakiko Saito Momoka Saito Megumi Kondo Yoshiyuki Kobayashi |
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| description | Abstract Beauty is related to our lives in various ways and examining it from an interdisciplinary approach is essential. People are very concerned with their appearance. A widely accepted beauty ideal is that the thinner an individual is, the more beautiful they are. However, the effect of continuous motion on body form aesthetics is unclear. Additionally, an upright pelvic posture in the sagittal plane during walking seems to affect the aesthetic judgments of female appearance. We directly analyzed the influence of body form and walking pattern on aesthetic visual impressions from a third-person perspective with a two-way analysis of variance. Captured motion data for three conditions—upright pelvis, normal pelvis, and posteriorly tilted pelvic posture—were applied to each of three mannequins, representing thin, standard, and obese body forms. When participants watched stimulus videos of the mannequins walking with various postures, a significantly higher score for aesthetic visual impression was noted for an upright pelvic posture than for a posteriorly tilted pelvic posture, irrespective of body form (F (2, 119) = 79.89, p < 0.001, η 2 = 0.54). These findings show that the third-person perspective of beauty can be improved even without being thin by walking with an upright pelvic posture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d8e1a4c2ce543e4a01ccbabad5382a62024-03-24T12:18:02ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-03-011411710.1038/s41598-024-56318-5Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspectiveSakiko Saito0Momoka Saito1Megumi Kondo2Yoshiyuki Kobayashi3Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nippon Institute of TechnologyFaculty of Human Life and Environmental Sciences, Ochanomizu UniversityFaculty of Human Life and Environmental Sciences, Ochanomizu UniversityHuman Augmentation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyAbstract Beauty is related to our lives in various ways and examining it from an interdisciplinary approach is essential. People are very concerned with their appearance. A widely accepted beauty ideal is that the thinner an individual is, the more beautiful they are. However, the effect of continuous motion on body form aesthetics is unclear. Additionally, an upright pelvic posture in the sagittal plane during walking seems to affect the aesthetic judgments of female appearance. We directly analyzed the influence of body form and walking pattern on aesthetic visual impressions from a third-person perspective with a two-way analysis of variance. Captured motion data for three conditions—upright pelvis, normal pelvis, and posteriorly tilted pelvic posture—were applied to each of three mannequins, representing thin, standard, and obese body forms. When participants watched stimulus videos of the mannequins walking with various postures, a significantly higher score for aesthetic visual impression was noted for an upright pelvic posture than for a posteriorly tilted pelvic posture, irrespective of body form (F (2, 119) = 79.89, p < 0.001, η 2 = 0.54). These findings show that the third-person perspective of beauty can be improved even without being thin by walking with an upright pelvic posture.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56318-5 |
| spellingShingle | Sakiko Saito Momoka Saito Megumi Kondo Yoshiyuki Kobayashi Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective Scientific Reports |
| title | Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective |
| title_full | Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective |
| title_fullStr | Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective |
| title_short | Gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third-person perspective |
| title_sort | gait pattern can alter aesthetic visual impression from a third person perspective |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56318-5 |
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