i was wondering about this for the last couple months as to why i always thought of saintly looking people to be extremely saintly in nature as well.This video sure taught me quite some stuffs.Great stuff as usual,man!
I wonder how they defined dominance and also how muscular the bodies were... I guess I'm just getting tripped up on the fact that I didn't think it was usual to consider an attractive female body 'dominant', although I can understand having a bias towards seeing a more fit person (of any sex) as more dominant than a less fit person, because of physical ability... interesting stuff
Also side thought, the history with eugenics in Germany might contribute to their not linking physical fitness with pro-sociality. Because Hitler thought that big strapping fit Aryan men would lead to a better world and then it just led to the Holocaust.. Germans might have a more available archetype of a "strong, bad guy", if u know what I mean.
u good! and yeah that’s actually a really good point about the history of germany and their perceptions of body and pro social perception. and yeah they only showed one body in the paper as an example and i believe they just asked participants to rate how dominate they perceived the bodies. don’t know if they provided anything beyond ::)
I guess we see this with tall people assumed to be dominant. Beauty laos correlates to physical symmetry. Perhaps we imagine physical symmetry implies ethicai , moral symmetry as well. E.g. only ugly people do ugly things. The sample size seems a bit low (135). Don't you need 400+ to be +/- 5% error?
