Table 1.
Mean anthropometrics.
Table 2.
Mean relationship lengths.
Table 3.
Climate and time of day during data collection.
Figure 1.
Mean walking speeds of Female Partner (FP) and Male Partner (MP) alone, together, and holding hands.
The average walking speed of the MPs significantly slowed to walk with the FP (by 6.3%; p = 0.009) and to hold hands (by 7.0%; p = 0.007), while the FPs’ speeds changed by <1% across all three conditions (alone, with MP, and holding hands). The error bars represent standard error.
Table 4.
Mean walking speeds. Mean (standard deviation).
Figure 2.
Mean walking speeds of females and males walking alone and in opposite-sex partner-friend pairs.
The average walking speed in such dyads demonstrates a compromise of speeds in which the FP sped up by 2.8% (p>0.4) while the MF slowed down by 2.6% (p>0.2) and the FF sped up by 2.9% (p>0.4) while the MP slowed down by 4.0% (p = 0.146). The walking speeds of Partners is also included for comparison (see also Fig. 1). The error bars represent standard error.