Predicting female attractiveness: A second look at thinness and waist-to-hip ratio

Sexualities, Evolution and Gender

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 83-88

  De Soto, M Catherine ^a   Kopp, Katie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Photographic stimuli; Physical attractiveness; Theory of evolution; Waist to hip

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FACIES; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; PERSONALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0742289947     PISSN: 14792508     EISSN: 14792516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616660310001632572     Document Type: Article

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