Why is there a difference between self-taking of men and women?

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Researchers at Florida State University compared the evolutionary behaviors of animals by comparing what "there is a difference in how to self-take with men and women?"

Relative Physical Position as an Impression-Management Strategy: Sex Differences in Its Use and Implications Psychological Science - Anastasia Makhanova, James K. McNulty, Jon K. Maner, 2017
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797616688885

The Surprising Reason Men and Women Take Selfies Differently
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In the world of wild animals, it is common to see that two animals adjust their physical position with their opponent trying to make each other's body larger. Psychologist Anastasia Makhanova saw the girls changing the angle of the camera to adjust the "positional relationship with the viewer" which varies depending on how the photographs were taken, "Where such behavior patterns are from You seem to have wondered if you are coming? Mr. Makhanova who wanted to understand the self-portrait tendency of men and women from the aspect of evolution theory of living organism conducted multiple surveys.

In the early stages of research, Makhanova's team gathered profile images of the date service that is online and found that many women's profile images were taken at an angle looking down from above. In addition, considering the possibility that 'charm' appears differently with homosexuals and heterosexuals, subjects only target heterosexuals.

On the other hand, in the case of men, there was no noticeable tendency in the profile image of the date service, but in LinkedIn which is a business specialized type SNS, there is a high tendency to photograph with "angle looking up from the bottom" It turned out. For women, LinkedIn says that it was often taken in "looking down from above".

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Makhanova explains that "self-viewers behind online services" becomes very important in self-shooting. Pictures taken at an angle looking up from underneath emphasize the size of the entire subject and the chin line so that men show a dominant position in the competition. Actions that show myself to the older age to male in front of you, and show control and status are seen in many male animals in the process of evolution.

Historically, Hitler and Stalin have taken pictures at an angle from the bottom to adapt their authority, and in the movie worldStanley KubrickDirector andAlfred HitchcockThe director is taking shots from the bottom to give power and power to the character.

Then can you say the same in your self-taken world? So Mr. Makhanova handed over the camera to 250 university students and told them that it was male or female to see the photographed pictures and took themselves. Then, "The tendency of a woman to shoot at an angle from the top when he heard that a man sees a photograph" and "the tendency of a man to shoot at an angle from the bottom when he heard that men see a photograph" were high Mr. Makhanova.

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As a final experiment, does the viewer have different impressions depending on the angle difference? Makhanova investigated that. I showed male and female subjects who were subjects from above, from the front, from the bottom, showed a photograph of the person taken, and evaluated the height, age and charm of the person in the photograph.

As a result of the experiment, women in their twenties who were taken at an angle from above are seen to be 2 years young on average, and the evaluation of "attractiveness" also changed from 4.8 to 5.4 points. "Women are most attractive when taken at an angle from above, this is a big factor because angles from above make them look thinner and younger," Makhanova says. Since the number of women who showed the cleavage of the chest was only 10%, the relation between the shooting of angles from above and the cleavage of the chest was not found.

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In the case of men, even if the shooting angle changes, the evaluation on appeal is said to have not been affected. However, the male evaluator saw the picture taken from the bottom and took it as "more dominant". It is only for men that men take such action, and men alone are aware of the signs of these pictures.

On the other hand, between the tendency that women prefer to be taken at an angle from above and the elements of control and obedience, regardless of whether they are male or female, no effect was seen. In other words, we could not find the fact that women emphasize "helplessness" by shooting at an angle from above.

Because Mr. Makhanova acknowledges that the self-portrait angle has a lot of cultural elements as evolutionary behavior in self-shooting is being enhanced by "seeing pictures online", "biological There are elements as important as well. " "Changing the position in relation to the partner is what many animals do, we do it in a more modern way," Makhanova said. Makhanova thinks that communication methods on domination and charm are universal because the shooting method at the angle from above or below gained popularity.