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  • Psychology
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Human Motor Control

Background:

  • Interpersonal motor coordination is affected by biomechanical and psychosocial factors.
  • The
  • what is beautiful is good
  • stereotype suggests attractiveness may influence social interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if physical attractiveness influences interpersonal motor coordination.
  • To determine if individuals coordinate differently with attractive versus less attractive virtual agents.

Main Methods:

  • 34 participants performed an interpersonal coordination task with virtual agents of varying attractiveness.
  • A concurrent reaction time task was used to assess attention allocation.

Main Results:

  • Participants demonstrated more stable motor coordination with attractive agents compared to less attractive agents.
  • This difference in coordination was not attributable to specific attention allocation strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Physical attractiveness significantly impacts interpersonal motor coordination.
  • Temporal-spatial coordinated movement is modulated by a partner's psychosocial characteristics, specifically attractiveness.