Preference for Women's Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane' Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants

Sorokowski, Piotr; Kościński, Krzysztof; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Huanca, Tomás

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105468

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“…Additionally, we asked about frequency of visits to the market towns in the past 3 months, years of schooling and TV exposure per week which are common measures of modernization among aboriginal populations (Godoy et al, 2005; Cheung and Kwan, 2009; Sorokowski et al, 2014). …”

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Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

Marczak

Sorokowski

2018

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of this study was to investigate an affective relationship with the natural environment in a non-western society and to determine its links with modernization. Emotional connectedness to nature, a significant predictor of nature-protective behavior, was assessed in a sample of 99 members of the Meru people of Kenya, recruited in places supposedly varying regarding their level of modernization: small market towns, farming villages, and a remote pastoralist settlement in the bush. The participants answered questions concerning their level of emotional affinity toward the natural environment and their lifestyle. The results show that feelings toward the natural environment in the studied population were, in general, positive. Such findings support the universality of the Biophilia hypothesis and are promising in the light of extant literature on the links between connectedness to nature and concern for the natural environment. Surprisingly we also found that a more traditional lifestyle was negatively related to emotional connectedness to nature. These findings suggest that contact with nature under conditions of direct dependence on the natural environment may have a different influence on people’s feelings toward nature than in the west. Contrary to the common view, we conclude that the impact of modernization on non-western people’s affective relationship with nature might have been unduly demonized.

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Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

Marczak

Sorokowski

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…Studies examining male mate preferences have typically tested preferences for phenotypic variation of potential female partners, such as waist-hip ratio or facial symmetry as an indicators of fecundity or good genes (Thornhill and Gangestad, 1999;Sorokowski et al, 2014). Only a few have considered male preference for female attributes which could be associated with paternity concern.…”

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Is there a link between paternity concern and female genital cutting in West Africa?

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Gibson

2019

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Here we explore the relationship between female genital cutting (FGC), sexual behaviour, and marriage opportunities in five West African countries. Using large demographic datasets (n 72,438 women, 12,704 men, 10,695 couples) we explore key (but untested) assumptions of an evolutionary proposal that FGC persists because it provides evolutionary fitness benefits for men by reducing non-paternity rates. We identify and test three assumptions implicit in this proposal. We test whether cut women have reduced extra-pair sex before or within marriage; whether FGC is associated with a younger age at marriage as an indication of partner preference; and whether individual and group-level indicators of paternity concern are associated with a stronger preference for marriage to women with FGC. Our results show that FGC status does not affect the odds of women engaging in several indicators of premarital sex, however women with FGC have significantly lower odds of having more than one lifetime sexual partner. We also show that women with FGC get married at a younger age which supports the argument that FGC status influences women's marriage opportunities, even when it does not restrict sexual activity. Finally, we find that in population groups where reported sexual activity and perceived risk of women's extra-pair sex is high, men have higher odds of marrying a first wife with FGC. Together, these results indicate that paternity certainty may be one of several factors contributing to the persistence of FGC in this sample, and that group-level sexual norms are key to maintaining the practice of FGC through the marriage market.

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“…For example, norms about female attractiveness vary between black and white populations in the United States, with thin bodies considered attractive among whites, but attractiveness among blacks extending to heavier women (Chithambo & Huey 2013). In general, standards about what attributes of bodies and faces are attractive show considerable cultural shaping, whereas cues to ugliness show more crosscultural consensus (Sorokowski et al 2014). As Zebrowitz and Rhodes (2004) found, attractiveness was validly associated with health and intelligence only in a sample of persons judged belowaverage in attractiveness.…”

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Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases

2017

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In our response, we review and address the comments on our target article made in the 25 commentaries. First, we review and discuss the commentaries that recognized the value of our approach, accepted the main premises and conclusions of our target article, and suggested further avenues for research on attractiveness-related biases. We then respond to commentators who either misinterpreted some parts of our target article or made statements with which we disagree. These commentaries provided us with an opportunity to clarify some aspects of our target article, for example, the fact that we address both the functional significance of attractiveness-related biases and their underlying mechanisms. We provide a rebuttal to two commentaries, in which we are accused of poor scholarship. We conclude our response by addressing two commentaries that discussed the societal implications of the occurrence of attractiveness-related biases in the labor market by briefly discussing the relationship between scientific research and social policy.

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Preference for Women's Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane' Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants

Cited by 25 publications

References 74 publications

Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

Is there a link between paternity concern and female genital cutting in West Africa?

Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases

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