The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalized predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness.

ABSTRACT: We used attractiveness judgements as a proxy to visualize the ideal female and male body for male and female participants and investigated how individual differences in the internalization of cultural ideals influence these representations. In the first of two studies, male and female participants judged the attractiveness of 242 male and female computer-generated bodies which varied independently in muscle and adipose. This allowed us to map changes in attractiveness across the complete body composition space, revealing single peaks for the attractiveness of both men and women. In the second study, we asked our participants to choose the most attractive male and female bodies in a method of adjustment task in which they could independently vary muscle and adipose to create the most attrac

SUBMITTER: Ridley BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9626828 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature