PSY 544 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 P3
• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Kośiński 4 eaied WHR separatel fro BMI.
• Many studies have used line drawings or silhouettes, rather than realistic
pictures/photos and
• To create low-WHR images, people often narrow the waist, but then if you do
nothing else to a persons image except narrow the waist then you also which
decrease their BMI, making them appear to be thinner. So, a preference for low
WHR in studies using this technique may really be a preference for low BMI.
In this study they:
• Created more realistic stimuli by measuring real women's bodies at diff places to get
an idea of what a female body is actually like and then added the dimensions to a
computer program to create a 3D animated model of a woman - so a woman with
realistic body proportions with computer-modeling.
• This allowed the author to vary BMI and WHR separately
• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Kośiński 4 eaied WHR separatel fro BMI.
• Varied BMI and WHR separately from one another.
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• Author created three levels of BMI
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• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Kośiński 4 eaied WHR separatel fro BMI.
• Varied BMI and WHR separately from one another.
• Varied WHR and a BMI of 21 - so same BMI but they vary on the WHRatio
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• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Kośiński 4 eaied WHR separatel fro BMI.
• 40 Polish men (38 heterosexual, 1 bisexual, 1 declined to answer) were asked to
scroll through the combinations of BMI and WHR to make the image as attractive as
possible.
• The WHR selected as most attractive, whatever the BMI, was approx. 0.7 - had a
mean of approximately .7
• And this is seen across culture so a WHR of 0.7 seems to be most attractive and that
health whether the BMI was 18.5, 21 or 25
o BMI 18.5 = WHR .7
o BMI 21 = WHR .69
o BMI 25 = WHR .72
• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Kośiński 4 eaied WHR separatel fro BMI.
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• Me’s preferees for feale ody shape
• Singh et al. (2010)
• Examined WHR independently - took out BMI
• Also aimed to investigate the effect of WHR independently of BMI.
• In this case they Obtained measurements and photographs of 10 women undergoing
cosmetic surgery to remove some of the fat from their body and move it to their
butt
• Obtained measurements and photographs of 10 women undergoing cosmetic
surgery to move fat from the waist to the buttocks.
• The reason why they chose to look at the sample of women is because this
particularly surgery on avg doesn't change your BMI - it changes your body shape so
it'll take weight from your hips and add to your butt so the weight won't change but
your body shape will
• The photos were given attractiveness ratings by men from:
o New Zealand (undergraduates)
o Cameroon (hunters and subsistence farmers)
o Indonesia (villagers)
o Samoa (fisherman, farmers, labourers)
• And they were from a range of diff countries and lifestyles
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