Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology

By F. Marlowe, Adam Wetsman. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “Sugiyama (2004) has proposed that men do have specialized adaptations for preferring women of high fecundity (see also Marlowe & Wetsman 2001), which have been shaped to be sensitive to local conditions, but the nature of such conditional inputs (e.g., food scarcity, distribution of body types,…”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “…that the preferences of American and European men, who generally do rate a female waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 as most attractive (Singh, 1993, 1994b; Westman & Marlowe, 1999), may not be universal to men in all other cultures (Furnham et al., 2002; Marlowe & Westman, 2001; Yu & Shepard, 1998).”
Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study (2005, result): “This is consistent with a number of studies using linedrawings with observers from non-industrialised societies that have suggested that heavier and less curvaceous figures may be more preferred ( Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001; Wetsman & Marlowe, 1999; Yu & Shepard, 1998).”
Men's preferences for women's profile waist-to-hip ratio in two societies (2005, methodology): “Among American men, the preferred frontal WHR equals 0.7 ( Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001 ), and the preferred profile WHR equals 0.65.”
Is beauty in the context-sensitive adaptations of the beholder?: Shiwiar use of waist-to-hip ratio in assessments of female mate value (2004, background): “Fourthly, acculturation includes changes in famine risk, diet, age at marriage, and female work patterns expected to cause mate-assessment mechanisms to recalibrate the importance of body fat in judgments of attractiveness (Anderson et al., 1992; Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001; Sugiyama, 1996).”
Feminism and the Evolution of Sex Differences and Similarities (2011, background): “Evolutionary psychologists are generally unreceptive to the idea that the dispositions themselves are dynamically shaped by cultural and socio-economic influences that may vary across nations and historical periods (e.g., Eagly and Wood 1999; Marlowe and Wetsman 2001).”
Physical Attractiveness in Adaptationist Perspective. (2015, background): “…markedly differs from the view that attractiveness-assessment mechanisms will produce cross-culturally uniform standards, with some criteria always weighted more than others (e.g., Yu & Shephard, 1998; Tovée & Cornielsson, 1999; Singh, 1993a; but see Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001; Sugiyama, 2004a).”
Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture (2006, unknown): “One would anticipate that a higher BMI would be preferred in this environment, which is consistent with previous studies in Tanzania using line-drawn figures (Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001; Wetsman & Marlowe, 1999).”
Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Japan: a cross‐cultural study (2006, background): “…apparent differences in the preferences expressed by people in different cultures across the world (e.g. Furnham & Alibhai, 1983; Furnham & Baguma, 1994; Furnham, Moutafi, & Baguma, 2002; Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001; Wetsman & Marlowe, 1999; Yu & Shepard, Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Eur.”
The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I (2010, background): “This argument emphasizes the fact that a primary function of adipose tissue (or body fat) is the storage of calories, which in turn suggests that body fat is a reliable predictor of food availability (Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001).”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “Science 326(5953):682–88. [rJH] Bornstein, M. H. (1980) Cross-cultural developmental psychology.”