Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: A replication and extension

1997/04/01 by Adrian Furnham, Tina Q. Tan, Tina Tan +2 · 16 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/s0191-8869(96)00241-3

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Citations

• Is thin really beautiful and good? Relationship between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and female attractiveness
• "Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours": Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness.

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