Lordosis in Humans

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=u0lX3lxi3U" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=u0lX3lxi3U</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672221115218" target="_blank" >10.1177/01461672221115218</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lordosis in Humans

Original language description

Despite progress in attractiveness research, we have yet to identify many fitness-relevant cues in the human phenotype or humans&apos; psychology for responding to them. Here, we test hypotheses about psychological systems that may have evolved to process distinct cues in the female lumbar region. The Fetal Load Hypothesis proposes a male preference for a morphological cue: lumbar curvature. The Lordosis Detection Hypothesis posits context-dependent male attraction to a movement: lordosis behavior. In two studies (Study 1 N: 102, Study 2 N: 231), we presented men with animated female characters that varied in their lumbar curvature and back arching (i.e., lordosis behavior). Irrespective of mating context, men&apos;s attraction increased as lumbar curvature approached the hypothesized optimum. By contrast, men experienced greater attraction to lordosis behavior in short-term than long-term mating contexts. These findings support both the Lordosis Detection and Fetal Load Hypotheses. Discussion focuses on the meaning of human lordosis and the importance of dynamic stimuli in attractiveness research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Personality &amp; Social Psychology Bulletin

ISSN

0146-1672

e-ISSN

1552-7433

Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

466-478

UT code for WoS article

000893361400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85150242593