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People Link Body Shapes with Personality Traits:
When we meet new people, our first impressions of their personality may depend, at least in part, on their body shape, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
"Our research shows that people infer a wide range of personality traits just by looking at the physical features of a particular body," says psychological scientist Ying Hu of the University of Texas at Dallas, first author on the research. "Stereotypes based on body shape can contribute to how we judge and interact with new acquaintances and strangers. Understanding these biases is important for considering how we form first impressions."
Previous research has shown that we infer a considerable amount of social information by looking at other people's faces, but relatively little research has explored whether body shapes also contribute to these judgments.
[...] Hu and colleagues created 140 realistic body models, of which 70 were female and 70 male. The three-dimensional renderings were generated from random values along 10 different body dimensions, using data from laser scans of actual human bodies. Using these models allowed the researchers to know the precise physical measurements of each body shown in the study.
A total of 76 undergraduate participants viewed a set of models — they saw each body from two angles and indicated whether 30 trait words shown on screen applied to that body. The trait words reflected dimensions of the Big Five personality traits (a common measure of personality used in psychology research) typically seen as positive (e.g., enthusiastic, extraverted, dominant) or negative (e.g., quiet, reserved, shy).
[...] Generally, participants judged heavier bodies as being associated with more negative traits, such as being lazy and careless; they judged lighter bodies as having more positive traits, such as being self-confident and enthusiastic.
Furthermore, the participants perceived classically feminine (e.g., pear-shaped) and classically masculine (e.g., broad-shouldered) bodies as being associated with "active" traits, such as being quarrelsome, extraverted, and irritable. Male and female bodies that were more rectangular, on the other hand, were associated with relatively passive traits, such as being trustworthy, shy, dependable, and warm.
[...] These findings add a new layer to the science behind first impressions, revealing "the complicated and value-based judgments that people make about strangers based only on their bodies," Hu concludes.
Journal Reference:
Ying Hu, Connor J. Parde, Matthew Q. Hill, Naureen Mahmood, Alice J. O'Toole. First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes. Psychological Science, 2018; 095679761879930 DOI: 10.1177/0956797618799300
(Score: 1, Troll) by zugedneb on Friday November 02 2018, @07:12PM (3 children)
How u interpret shapes is influenced by popular culture, aka television.
But to be realistic here, if we assume that that are some "content" about this in ourgenes, such as reacting to certain symmetries and geometric propoerties, we should also assume that "intellect/instinct" catches up and learns to use these features for the benfit of the habitant of the body.
As a favorite example, i take Jews. Almost all the people who are i know are Jews do not have "alpha male" features, but they look rather smooth and feminine, and act accordingly.
This must be one of the features that let them survive and blend into cultures.
Of course, hand in hand with intellect. It had to develop too...
Also it is most likely a sideeffect of "selffulfilling phropecy", that those amongs Jews who lookd like natural born killers or gladiators or some other shit were eliminated during their history, witch meant that the soft, feminine, and intelligent did the breeding.
Without haveing rather sofisticated brainscans of how, and what part of the brain inerprets the geometry of other living stuff, there is probably no more to say than this: there is a reason that Hollywood makes the stuff looking like it does, and a reason for anime characters to have the proportions they do. To say otherwise is bullshit.
To ballance the karma my extreme wisdom would give, here is a joke: we should give tham a rather resource rich land, and see how these soft intellectual people klings on to it, when others want a piece of it =) ahaha... Jew u can only be away from "home", cuz when u have a home, you have to be and act like anybpdy else :D
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @11:18PM
wtf, i thought the post hit it in the middle...
u cant just call inconvenient shit trolling, when the actual article scratches a bit on the truth...
/zug
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @03:35AM
that's funny, my Jewish friend is pretty big, 6'3" or 190cm, well over 100 kilos and races bicycles (so he's in good aerobic condition). He also looks like a hero and was smart enough to get a PhD (and hold down some great jobs). Maybe the Jews that came to N. America don't fit the mold of those in old Europe?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @01:35PM
The smooth and feminine appearance is due to culture, as is the intelligence. Jews learn at least two languages - this has a well-documented positive effect on cognitive ability. As a population, they have historically been very literate for a long time while literacy was rare in others. These factors have given them an edge throughout history, and are why many Jews are middle/upper class. Middle/upper class males tend to be more effeminate.