Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You

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11 points·PaulHoule··8 comments

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Direct to paper:

Body sway predicts romantic interest in speed dating

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7812630/

> attempting to control for factors like one person being unreasonably attractive, and skewing the results.

I've long suspected a bias in science against people like me.

But you are a bird?

https://archive.ph/WPQsB

The paper was published in 2020, wonder what spurred author to post about it now

I wonder if this will be replicable?

The movement coordination phenomenon has been replicated in a general sense. I think I was reading some articles a few weeks ago about general movement coordination (body, face, head) being predictive of increased attraction.

There's also stuff like this:

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-movement-strong-togetherness.h...

I'm less sure about the music part. My guess is it's not about groove in particular but something else about music preferences or something, but who knows.

I do something I call “rapid synchronization” to do street photography as a Huli Jing. If I am getting a 60% take rate I think “damn, I am off my game and need to regroup” and can usually get to 80-95% statiatically and 100% emotionally.

I understand how to project a “glamour” by using relaxation and grounding exercises and that is pretty powerful in itself but I don’t quite know how to articulate the rest of it. Sometimes people freeze up in my presence, but 90 seconds of rapid synchronization are safe and effective. 90 minutes is a different matter. It does have something to do with physiological pacing and synchronizing.

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