The psychology of physical attraction

By Viren Swami, Adrian Furnham. 2007

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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): “…International Body Project Received March 9, 2009; revision accepted July 23, 2009 The topic of physical attractiveness has garnered a great deal of attention within art and philosophy and, more recently, within the psychological sciences (for reviews, see Swami, 2007; Swami & Furnham, 2008).”
Sexualizing the Self (2014, background): “However, again, research is necessary to evaluate feminist theoretical arguments as opposed to evolutionary psychology arguments, for example, that suggest that women naturally use sex appeal to attract men, whereas men use power indicators to attract women (Swami & Furnham, 2008).”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “Researchers have linked a variety of interpersonal and intrapersonal variables to people’s attitudes toward cosmetic surgery (Sarwer et al. 1998, 2003b; Swami and Furnham 2008), such as negative body image (Brown et al.”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “…important role in most human cultures, and so it is not surprising that a substantial body of work has sought to understand the factors that shape such ideals in contemporary cultures (for reviews, see Moradi & Huang, 2008; Swami, 2007; Swami & Furnham, 2007, 2008; Swami & Salem, in press).”
From Dating to Mating and Relating: Predictors of Initial and Long–Term Outcomes of Speed–Dating in a Community Sample (2011, background): “…men (particularly in the short-term mating context, Swami, Miller, Furnham, Penke, & Tovée, 2008) is lower body mass, which, unless extremely low, is an indicator of general health and thus ultimately fecundity (Swami & Furnham, 2007; Yilmaz, Kilic, Kanat-Pektas, Gulerman, & Mollamahmutolu, 2009).”