Ideal Female Body Type

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Anderson, Judith L.Was the Duchess of Windsor right?: A cross-cultural review of the socioecology of ideals of fema...

Associated Hypotheses (7)

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Anderson, Judith L.Societies with unreliable food supplies and undeveloped food storage technology will tend to have plump standards of female beauty (215).
Anderson, Judith L.Cold climates (high latitude) will tend to be associated with relatively fat standards of beauty and warm climates (low latitude) will tend to be associated with relatively thin standards of beauty (202,215).
Anderson, Judith L.Plump women will be seen as more attractive than slender women in most cultures (216).
Anderson, Judith L.The more likely girls are to experience adverse consequences from the development of sexual maturity, the thinner the standard of beauty (204/216).
Anderson, Judith L.Cultures in which men clearly dominate will have relatively fat standards of beauty, and where women are less subordinate, there will be thinner standards of beauty (205).
Anderson, Judith L.Cultures with weak fraternal interest groups (FIGs) should have a slender standard of beauty, those with strong FIGs should have a relatively fat standard of beauty (206).
Anderson, Judith L.Cultures will have a plump standard of beauty when women's work is not valued highly, or when women are restricted in the times and situations in which they can work (207).

Associated OCMs

  1. norms
  2. sexual stimulation