Are male aesthetic preferences for female waist-to-hip ratios domain-specific? : an investigation of two evolutionary psychological assumptions regarding male aesthetic preferences.

Theoretical models based in Evolutionary Psychology posit that male aesthetic preference for a female waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 reflects evolved psychological mechanisms for identifying high quality males. The current study replicated and extended previous evolutionary psychological waist-to-hip rat...

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Main Author: Ward, Aaron Francis
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Department of Psychology 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4673