Judging female figures: A new methodological approach to male attractiveness judgments of female waist-to-hip ratio

Biological Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-229

  Schützwohl, Achim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractiveness judgments; Evolutionary psychology; Evolved psychological mechanism; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE FERTILITY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 30544435917     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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