The Effects of Smooth Movements on Pleasure

In one of your studies, you looked at what dance movements people find more beautiful. Could you explain what people enjoyed more and why that may have been the case? This wonderful, wonderful postdoc who worked on it, Andrea Orlandi, a few of the PhDs student at the time,. He's a postdoc now and he's actually in Australia doing some really cool new work that's following this up. So with this paper, we wanted to test this embodied simulation account of aesthetics. And essentially what we found was that people did prefer the much more dynamic directions and tempo changing movements compared to the really smooth ones.