Anthropometric correlates of human anger

Abstract

The recalibrational theory of human anger predicts positive correlations between aggressive 3 formidability and anger levels in males, and between physical attractiveness and anger levels 4 in females. We tested these predictions by using a three dimensional body scanner to collect 5 anthropometric data about male aggressive formidability (measures of upper body 6 muscularity and leg-body ratio) and female bodily attractiveness (waist-hip ratio, body mass 7 index, overall body shape femininity, and several other measures). Predictions were partially 8 supported: in males, two of three anger measures correlated significantly positively with 9 several muscularity measures; in females, self-perceived attractiveness correlated 10 significantly positively with two anger measures. However, most of these significant results 11were observed only after excluding from the sample 27 participants who were older than

Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?

“…This emphasis on objective and other-perceived measures is important because self-assessments of physical characteristics are not necessarily reliable reflections of reality as perceived by others. This appears to be particularly true with regard to women's ratings of their own attractiveness, which tend to correlate only weakly with anthropometric measures and others' ratings of their attractiveness (Brewer, Archer, & Manning, 2007;Paunonen, 2003;Price et al, 2012). Third, not all of these studies were designed to test for relationships between egalitarianism and objectively measured or other-perceived attractiveness/formidability in women (as well as men).…”

“…Formidability increases an individual's bargaining power by enhancing abilities both to threaten violence and to offer protection and work effort (Price, Dunn, Hopkins, & Kang, 2012;Sell et al, 2009b;Snyder et al, 2011). Moreover, attractive people have higher bargaining power because they are preferred as social associates (Langlois et al, 2000), a manifestation of the attractiveness "halo effect" which leads to the attribution of a range of positive traits to attractive individuals (Dion, 2002;Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991).…”

Darwin's invisible hand: Market competition, evolution and the firm

“…Although this view has support (Gelman et al, 2010;Piff et al, 2010Piff et al, , 2012, an MLS perspective generates the additional prediction that people who would have been more able to compete for resources in ancestral environments-regardless of their ability to do so in modern environments-will also tend to prefer less egalitarian distribution systems. This prediction is supported by studies suggesting that males with more physically "formidable" bodies are less egalitarian, and more competitive and disputatious, on a variety of measures (Price et al, , 2012SanchezPages and Turiegano, 2010;Sell et al, 2009;Zaatari and Trivers, 2007). Further, perceptions about the extent to which a resource ought to be shared can be predicted by information about the resource's availability.…”

Protective buttressing of the human fist and the evolution of hominin hands

“…In lowland gorillas, the greatest sexual dimorphism is in the weight of the forelimbs, the forelimb trunk binding muscles and the epaxial muscles (Zihlman and McFarland, 2000). In addition, in humans, the arms and upper body are more sexually dimorphic than the legs (Price et al, 2011) and the greatest dimorphism in size appears to be in the forearm and hand (Lindegard, 1953). Additionally, as would be expected if human hand proportions evolved as a result of sexual selection, there is also dimorphism in…”