Male sexual strategies modify ratings of female models with specific waist-to-hip ratios

Human Nature

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-224

  Brase, Gary L ^a   Walker, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body weight; Evolutionary theory; Human mate selection; Judgment; Physical attractiveness; Physique; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142734994     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-004-1020-x     Document Type: Article

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