Is thin really beautiful and good? Relationship between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and female attractiveness

1994/01/01 by Devendra Singh, Devendra Narain Singh · 17 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1016/0191-8869(94)90116-3

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Citations

• Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures

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