Optimum body-mass index and maximum sexual attractiveness

Tovee, MJ; Reinhardt, Stefanie; Emery, J L; Cornelissen, P

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)79257-6

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“…These findings were in agreement with previous observation that female bodies with a low but healthy BMI often attract the highest attractiveness ranking (Mo et al, 2013;Tovée et al, 1998). The fact that size 6 was rated similarly to size 14 suggested that thinner is not necessarily more attractive.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Indeed, factors such as body mass index (BMI), body fat and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) have been shown to correlate with attractiveness judgements (Singh, 1993;Tovée, Reinhardt, Emery, & Cornelissen, 1998;Weeden & Sabini, 2005), and are predictive of both health and fertility (Singh & Singh, 2011). For instance, slender figures with a low WHR and large breasts are often rated as more attractive and considered for relationships (Singh & Young, 1995), furthermore these features have been shown to correlate with high fecundity as measured by levels of sex hormones (Jasieńska, Ziomkiewicz, Ellison, Lipson, & Thune, 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This possibility was systematically examined in this study. As measurements of BMI, WHR and chest size are strong predictors of attractiveness (Singh, 1993;Tovée et al, 1998;Weeden & Sabini, 2005), when assessing regional body dissatisfaction we included both objective measurements and subjective ratings of body parts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Women gaze behaviour in assessing female bodies: the effects of clothing, body size, own body composition and body satisfaction

Cundall

Guo

2015

Psychological Research

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Often with minimally clothed figures depicting extreme body sizes, previous studies have shown women tend to gaze at evolutionary determinants of attractiveness when viewing female bodies, possibly for self-evaluation purposes, and their gaze distribution is modulated by own body dissatisfaction level. To explore to what extent women's body-viewing gaze behaviour is affected by clothing type, dress size, subjective measurements of regional body satisfaction and objective measurements of own body composition (e.g., chest size, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio), in this self-paced body attractiveness and body size judgement experiment, we compared healthy, young women's gaze distributions when viewing female bodies in tight and loose clothing of different dress sizes. In contrast to tight clothing, loose clothing biased gaze away from the waist-hip to the leg region, and subsequently led to enhanced body attractiveness ratings and body size underestimation for larger female bodies, indicating the important role of clothing in mediating women's body perception. When viewing preferred female bodies, women's higher satisfaction of a specific body region was associated with an increased gaze towards neighbouring body areas, implying satisfaction might reduce the need for comparison of confident body parts; furthermore undesirable body composition measurements were correlated with a gaze avoidance process if the construct was less changeable (i.e. chest size) but a gaze comparison process if the region was more changeable (i.e. body mass index, dress size). Clearly, own body satisfaction and body composition measurements had an evident impact on women's body-viewing gaze allocation, possibly through different cognitive processes.3

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Women gaze behaviour in assessing female bodies: the effects of clothing, body size, own body composition and body satisfaction

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Guo

2015

Psychological Research

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“…around 20, are those typically regarded as more appealing (Tovée et al 1998(Tovée et al , 1999. Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999 show a significant correlation in our data, we followed the literature and controlled for 329 BMI in any further analysis including WHR.…”

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Who is the fairest of them all? The independent effect of attractive features and self-perceived attractiveness on cooperation among women

Muñoz-Reyes¹,

Pita²,

Arjona³

et al. 2014

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…In populations that have suffered repeated famine threats preferences shift to larger females (BROWN and KON-NER 1987;KING 2013). In populations where this threat is absent the preference is for smaller females (TOVÉE et al 1998). The mechanism can also be seen in microcosm.…”

Section: Has Evolution Been Copious?mentioning

confidence: 99%