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Curviness is a better predictor of a woman's body attractiveness than the waist-to-hip ratio

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Scientific Reports. Springer. 2024, 14, 23081. eISSN 2045-2322. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-74265-z

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The waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is commonly used as an indicator of mid-body fat distribution and is often used to answer health-related questions. It has also been suggested that a woman’s WHR can signal her reproductive fitness. This notion is supported by evidence indicating a relation between WHR and a woman’s physical attractiveness. However, it was also acknowledged that the actual fitness cue is the curviness of a woman’s body. While curviness is easy to perceive, it is difficult to quantify. Therefore, the WHR is often considered as a simple measure of body curviness. However, the WHR and curviness are not uniquely related. After replicating results of a pioneering study in this area, we therefore tested whether the WHR or curviness better predicts a woman’s physical attractiveness. As stimuli, we used simple line drawings of women’s bodies, differing in their curviness and width. The results demonstrate that curviness is a better predictor, even though we used a relatively simple curvature-based measure of curviness. This outcome indicates that the WHR is a poor measure of a woman’s body curviness and underscores the need for a more accurate measure of curviness when assessing the physical attractiveness of a woman’s body.

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150 Psychologie

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Waist-to-hip ratio, Curviness, Curvature, Physical attractiveness

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ISO 690HÜBNER, Ronald, Emily UFKEN, 2024. Curviness is a better predictor of a woman's body attractiveness than the waist-to-hip ratio. In: Scientific Reports. Springer. 2024, 14, 23081. eISSN 2045-2322. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-74265-z
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  year={2024},
  doi={10.1038/s41598-024-74265-z},
  title={Curviness is a better predictor of a woman's body attractiveness than the waist-to-hip ratio},
  volume={14},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  author={Hübner, Ronald and Ufken, Emily},
  note={Article Number: 23081}
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