‘Something in the way she moves’

Cape Town. A model strut her stuff for the David Tlale le in Friday nights Arise Cape Town Fashion extravanganza. Picture Ian Landsberg

Cape Town. A model strut her stuff for the David Tlale le in Friday nights Arise Cape Town Fashion extravanganza. Picture Ian Landsberg

Published Jul 11, 2012

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London - It seems there really is something in the way she moves.

Men can tell when a woman is at her most fertile, researchers claim – simply by watching how she walks.

Her dance moves are also a giveaway, but her gait provides the biggest clue.

Just what signal she gives out remains unclear, but it may involve a wiggle of the hips, say the German scientists.

More than 40 years after George Harrison wrote the Beatles song Something, researchers at the University of Gottingen set out to discover if his lyrics had a grain of scientific truth.

Forty-eight young women were filmed as they walked up and down in a straight line and danced for 30 second bursts. Their movements were then turned into silhouettes, so that their looks would not affect the results.

This process was carried out twice, once when the women were at their most fertile and again when the odds of them becoming pregnant were very low.

Researchers then asked 200 men to watch videos of the walking or dancing silhouettes and say how attractive the moves were.

They found the women’s movements more alluring when they were at their most fertile, according to the study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. - Daily Mail

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