Waist‐to‐hip ratio affects female body attractiveness and modulates early brain responses

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 4490-4498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzia Del Zotto ◽  
David Framorando ◽  
Alan J. Pegna
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio ◽  
Body Attractiveness ◽  
Brain Responses

scholarly journals Female waist-to-hip ratio, body mass index and sexual attractiveness in China

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Dixson ◽  
Baoguo Li ◽  
A.F. Dixson
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Sexual Attractiveness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio

Abstract Men and women at Northwest University (n=751), Xi'an, China were asked to judge the attractiveness of photographs of female patients who had undergone micrograft surgery to reduce their waist-to-hip ratios (WHR). Micrograft surgery involves harvesting adipose tissue from the waist and reshaping the buttocks to produce a low WHR and an ‘hourglass’ female figure. This gynoid distribution of female body fat has been shown to correlate with measures of fertility and health. Significantly larger numbers of subjects, of both sexes, chose post-operative photographs, with lower WHRs, as more attractive than pre-operative photographs of the same women. Some patients had gained, and some had lost weight, post-operatively, with resultant changes in body mass index (BMI). However, these changes in BMI were not related to judgments of attractiveness. These results show that the hourglass female figure is rated as attractive in China, and that WHR, rather than BMI, plays a crucial role in such attractiveness judgments.

scholarly journals Impact of Face Masks on Female Body Perception is Modulated by Facial Expressions

Perception ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 030100662110610
Author(s):  
Eleanor Mills ◽  
Kun Guo
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Body Attractiveness ◽  
Body Size Estimation

People routinely wear face masks during the pandemic, but little is known about their impact on body perception. In this online study, we presented female body images of Caucasian avatars in common dress sizes displaying happy, angry, and neutral facial expressions with and without face masks, and asked women to rate the perceived body attractiveness and body size. In comparison with mask-off condition, mask-on decreased body attractiveness ratings for happy avatars but did not affect ratings for neutral avatars irrespective of avatar dress sizes. For avatars displaying angry expressions, mask-on increased body attractiveness ratings for slimmer avatars but did not affect ratings for larger avatars. On the other hand, body size estimation was not systematically affected by face masks and facial expressions. It appears that face masks mainly show an expression-dependent influence on body attractiveness judgement, possibly through suppressing the perceived facial expressions.

scholarly journals Television consumption drives perceptions of female body attractiveness in a population undergoing technological transition.

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 839-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda G. Boothroyd ◽  
Jean-Luc Jucker ◽  
Tracey Thornborrow ◽  
Robert A. Barton ◽  
D. Michael Burt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Body Attractiveness ◽  
Technological Transition

Preferences for Female Body Weight and Shape in Three European Countries

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viren Swami ◽  
Felix Neto ◽  
Martin J. Tovée ◽  
Adrian Furnham
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio ◽  
Cultural Setting ◽  
Primary Determinant

Abstract. Body mass index (BMI) and body shape as measured by the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are important components in judgments of women's bodily attractiveness. The relative importance of each of these cues was examined in three countries: Britain, Spain, and Portugal. Male participants from Britain, Spain, and Portugal, respectively, were asked to rate a set of images of real women with known BMI and WHR. The results showed that, regardless of the cultural setting, BMI was the primary determinant of women's physical attractiveness, with consistent preferences for relatively slender women. WHR emerged as a significant predictor of attractiveness judgments for the Spanish and Portuguese groups (with preferences for low WHRs, indicative of a curvaceous female body), but not the British group. These findings are discussed in terms of the different cultural values ascribed to participants in the three countries.

Waist to hip ratio and breast size modulate the processing of female body silhouettes: An EEG study

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Pazhoohi ◽  
Joana Arantes ◽  
Alan Kingstone ◽  
Diego Pinal
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Breast Size ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio

Effects of Shape Parameters on the Attractiveness of a Female Body

2007 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fan ◽  
W. Dai ◽  
X. Qian ◽  
K.P. Chau ◽  
Q. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
General Trend ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Volume ◽  
Body Proportions ◽  
Body Attractiveness ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Optimal Value ◽  
Body Parameters ◽  
Best Fit

Various researchers have suggested that certain anthropometric ratios can be used to measure female body attractiveness, including the waist to hip ratio, Body Mass Index (BMI), and the body volume divided by the square of the height (Volume-Height Index). Based on a wide range of female subjects and virtual images of bodies with different ratios, Volume-Height Index was found to provide the best fit with female body attractiveness, and the effect of Volume-Height Index can be fitted with two half bell-shaped exponential curves with an optimal Volume-Height Index at 14.2 liter/m2. It is suggested that the general trend of the effect of Volume-Height Index may be culturally invariant, but the optimal value of Volume-Height Index may vary from culture to culture. In addition to Volume-Height Index, other body parameters or ratios which reflect body proportions and the traits of feminine characteristics had smaller but significant effects on female body attractiveness, and such effects were stronger at optimum Volume-Height Index.

scholarly journals Attractiveness of the female body: Preference for the average or the supernormal?

Psihologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodan Markovic ◽  
Tara Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Computer Animation ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Peak Shift ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Body Attractiveness ◽  
Attractive Female

The main purpose of the present study was to contrast the two hypotheses of female body attractiveness. The first is the ?preference-for-the average? hypothesis: the most attractive female body is the one that represents the average body proportions for a given population. The second is the ?preference-for-the supernormal? hypothesis: according to the so-called ?peak shift effect?, the most attractive female body is more feminine than the average. We investigated the preference for three female body characteristics: waist to hip ratio (WHR), buttocks and breasts. There were 456 participants of both genders. Using a program for computer animation (DAZ 3D) three sets of stimuli were generated (WHR, buttocks and breasts). Each set included six stimuli ranked from the lowest to the highest femininity level. Participants were asked to choose the stimulus within each set which they found most attractive (task 1) and average (task 2). One group of participants judged the body parts that were presented in the global context (whole body), while the other group judged the stimuli in the local context (isolated body parts only). Analyses have shown that the most attractive WHR, buttocks and breasts are more feminine (meaning smaller for WHR and larger for breasts and buttocks) than average ones, for both genders and in both presentation contexts. The effect of gender was obtained only for the most attractive breasts: males prefer larger breasts than females. Finally, most attractive and average WHR and breasts were less feminine in the local than in the global context. These results support the preference-for the supernormal hypothesis: all analyses have shown that both male and female participants preferred female body parts which are more feminine than those judged average.

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