Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgments of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships

1995/11/01 by Devendra Singh, Devendra Narain Singh, Robert K. Young · 14 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1016/0162-3095(95)00074-7

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Citations

• Evolution of Desire, The
• Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating.
• Is thin really beautiful and good? Relationship between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and female attractiveness
• Breast asymmetry, sexual selection, and human reproductive success

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• Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness: Sexual Preferences of Men and Women in Bakossiland, Cameroon
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• The Relationships between Symmetry and Attractiveness and Mating Relevant Decisions and Behavior: A Review
• Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: What, whether, and why.
• Breast shape (ptosis) as a marker of a woman's breast attractiveness and age: Evidence from Poland and Papua
• How Universal Are Preferences for Female Waist-to-Hip Ratios? Evidence from the Hadza of Tanzania
• Female body shape [wikipedia]
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