Attraction Effects of Smiling and Body Position: A Cultural Comparison

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99 undergraduate women from Japan and 78 women and 54 men from the United States viewed slides of a Japanese woman who either smiled frequently (was shown smiling in 70% of the slides) or infrequently (was shown smiling in 20% of the slides) while displaying either open or closed body positions. Subjects from Japan rated the woman as the most interpersonally attractive when she smiled frequently and expressed closed body positions and the least attractive when she smiled frequently and expressed open body positions. In contrast, college men and women from the United States rated the same model as the most interpersonally attractive when she smiled frequently and expressed open body positions and the least attractive when she smiled infrequently and used closed body positions.

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