• DOI:10.1098/rspb.1999.0624
Corpus ID: 11851525

Visual cues to female physical attractiveness

@article{Tovee1999VisualCT,
  title={Visual cues to female physical attractiveness},
  author={M. Tovee and D. Maisey and J. Emery and P. Cornelissen},
  journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences},
  year={1999},
  volume={266},
  pages={211 - 218}
}

• M. Tovee, D. Maisey, +1 author P. Cornelissen
• Published 1999
• Psychology, Medicine
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

Evolutionary psychology suggests that a woman's sexual attractiveness is based on cues of health and reproductive potential. In recent years, research has focused on the ratio of the width of the waist to the width of the hips (the waist–to–hip ratio (WHR)). A low WHR (i.e. a curvaceous body) is believed to correspond to the optimal fat distribution for high fertility, and so this shape should be highly attractive. In this paper we present evidence that weight scaled for height (the body mass… Expand

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