Visual perception of male body attractiveness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1560, 2005, Pages 219-226

  Fan, J ^a   Dai, W ^b   Liu, F ^a   Wu, J ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Body proportion; Male body attractiveness; Volume height index; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY PROPORTION; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VOLUME HEIGHT INDEX; WAIST HIP RATIO; ASIAN; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTHETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BEAUTY; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 16244400472     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2922     Document Type: Article

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