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I Can Dance: Further Investigations Of The Effect Of Dancing Ability On Mate Value, T. Joel Wade, Erin Weinstein, Nina Dalal, Kelsey J. Salerno
I Can Dance: Further Investigations Of The Effect Of Dancing Ability On Mate Value, T. Joel Wade, Erin Weinstein, Nina Dalal, Kelsey J. Salerno
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The present research examined how being described as a dancer affects Black and White men and women’s assessed mate value in two studies. Study 1 examined evaluations of men by women and study 2 examined evaluations of women by men. Based on prior research examining how dancers are perceived and how body movements affect social perceiver’s evaluations of others, men and women described as dancers were expected to receive better ratings. Additionally, race of the individual being assessed was not expected to have any impact on mate value ratings. The results were consistent with the hypotheses. Men and women described …