The Role of Body Weight, Waist-to-Hip Ratio, and Breast Size in Judgments of Female Attractiveness

1998/08/01 by Adrian Furnham, Melanie Dias, Alastair McClelland · 7 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1023/a:1018810723493

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Citations

• 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
• Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgments of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships
• Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: A replication and extension
• "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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• Breast shape (ptosis) as a marker of a woman's breast attractiveness and age: Evidence from Poland and Papua
• Men's preferences for women's profile waist‐to‐hip ratio, breast size, and ethnic group in Britain and South Africa
• PERCEPTION OF FEMALE BUTTOCKS AND BREAST SIZE IN PROFILE
• Waist–hip ratio [wikipedia]