Attractiveness of women’s body: body mass index, waist–hip ratio, and their relative importance
- K. Kościński
- Medicine, Psychology
- 1 July 2013
Body mass index and waist–hip ratio are related to human health and both play a role in mate choice. However, previous research is inconsistent as to what body mass index and waist–hip ratio values…
Assessment of Waist-to-Hip Ratio Attractiveness in Women: An Anthropometric Analysis of Digital Silhouettes
- K. Kościński
- PsychologyArchives of Sexual Behavior
- 24 August 2013
Male preferences for female WHR are investigated using a high precision assessment procedure and digitally manufactured, high quality, anthropometrically informed stimuli which were disentangled from body mass covariation.
Facial attractiveness: General patterns of facial preferences
- K. Kościński
- Psychology
- 1 December 2007
Facial attractiveness: General patterns of facial preferences This review covers universal patterns in facial preferences. Facial attractiveness has fascinated thinkers since antiquity, but has been…
Perception of Facial Attractiveness from Static and Dynamic Stimuli
- K. Kościński
- PsychologyPerception
- 1 February 2013
The association between attractiveness of facial images and clips was tested on a larger sample than has previously been reported, and the importance of facial averageness, femininity/masculinity, symmetry, fattiness, skin health, and mouth expression for attractiveness proved similar for static and dynamic stimuli.
Season of birth and subsequent body size: The potential role of prenatal vitamin D
- M. Krenz‐Niedbała, E. Puch, K. Kościński
- MedicineAmerican Journal of Human Biology
- 1 March 2011
The season‐of‐birth effect on body size in the sample of 1,148 eight‐year‐old Polish urban children was explored and the mechanism responsible for this effect was proposed: Vitamin D regulates embryo's cellular differentiation, and its deficiency triggers permanent developmental changes.
Hand attractiveness—its determinants and associations with facial attractiveness
- K. Kościński
- Psychology
- 1 March 2012
Hand and facial attractiveness was correlated with each other for each sex and mediated by shape typicality and fattiness in men and by grooming and, possibly, fattness in women.
Breast firmness is of greater importance for women's attractiveness than breast size
- K. Kościński
- PsychologyAmerican Journal of Human Biology
- 1 September 2019
This work investigates the role of male preferences in the evolution of permanently enlarged breasts in human females and investigates their relative importance to breast size and shape.
Mere visual experience impacts preference for body shape: evidence from male competitive swimmers
- K. Kościński
- Psychology
- 1 March 2012
Offspring sex ratio in domestic goat (Capra hircus)
- M. Górecki, K. Kościński
- Biology
- 10 October 2003
Whether maternal hornedness, maternal and paternal breed and age, maternal birth year, litter size, previous year offspring sex, and litter birth year influenced offspring sex ratio in the domestic goat is assessed.
Month‐of‐birth effect on height and weight in Polish rural children
- K. Kościński, M. Krenz‐Niedbała, A. Kozłowska-Rajewicz
- PsychologyAmerican Journal of Human Biology
- 2004
This study rejects the first two possibilities and suggests this effect requires further research to be conducted in various geographical locations, climates, and cultures, on humans as well as on other species.
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