Sex differences in the perception of male and female body shapes

Furnham, Adrian; Radley, Sally

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“…When asked to rate the attractiveness of line drawings of different body sizes, children, adolescents, and adults rate body sizes with a moderate amount of fat more positively than other body sizes. As body sizes become progressively thinner or heavier, attractiveness ratings decrease (Feldman, Feldman, & Goodman, 1988;Furnham & Radley, 1989;Furnham & Baguma, 1994). The limited data suggest that there may be continuity across the life span of reactions toward body sizes in addition to ideal body sizes.…”

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Continuity and change in the evaluation of ideal and acceptable body sizes across a wide age span

Rand

Wright

2000

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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Continuity and change in the evaluation of ideal and acceptable body sizes across a wide age span

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Wright

2000

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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“…Unfortunately, because this study used crude weight categories and provided no formal assessment of reliability or validity, it did not provide substantial evidence on the capacity of humans to estimate weight from photographs. Furnham and Radley (1989), however, found that a group of young participants (ages 16-21) were able to rank order drawings depicting naked persons of varying adiposity along a continuum from very thin to obese. Also, Kato and Higashiyama (1998) found that undergraduate participants were generally able to provide accurate estimates of height based on full-length photographs.…”

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Predicting adult health and mortality from adolescent facial characteristics in yearbook photographs

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ongitudinal research in the social sciences has enriched our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of obesity (Crossman, Sullivan, and Benin 2006;Goodman and Whitaker 2002;Himes 2000;Mannino et al. 2006;Novak, Ahlgren, and Hammarstrom 2006;Sundquist and Johansson 1998). Unfortunately, for much of the twentieth century, social scientists did not routinely record the height and weight of study participants (but see, e.g., Ayres 1909). As a consequence, a number of important longitudinal studies that might otherwise provide excellent resources for obesity research-and, more generally, for research on the later consequences of early life characteristics and conditions-are limited by the lack of body mass indicators early in life.The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) fi ts the previous description. The WLS is a cohort study of over 10,000 individuals that has been used to study a wide range of health issues, including cognitive function (Krahn et al. 2003;Seltzer et al. 2005

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“…Much of the literature related to body image attraction, such as studies on media effects (Spillman & Everington, 1989), anti-fat ideology (Crandall & Bieriat, 1990), stereotypes of obesity (Harris, Harris, & Bochner, 1982), dieting and body shape concerns (Davies & Furnham, 1986), and sex difference ratings (Furnham & Radley, 1989) have not concentrated on cultural differences. Reviewers on the psychology of physical appearance attest to the fact that most of the research has been done in Anglo-Saxon developed countries (Cash, 1990;Rothbaum, 1990).…”

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“…This study is a part replication and extension of the Furnham and Alibhai (1983) study. It set out to compare body attitude ratings of fairly large groups of British and Ugandan males and females using established male and female figure drawings (Furnham & Radley, 1989). From previous research it was possible to entertain a number of hypotheses when rating figures: but it should be pointed out that various ratings will be made on each figure so the response variable is multivariate.…”

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Cross-cultural differences in the evaluation of male and female body shapes

Furnham

Baguma

1994

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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Comparable groups of British and Ugandan students rated 24 drawings of male and female figures on 72 bipolar scales. The drawings represented figures ranging from extremely obese to extremely anorexic. Multivariate and univariate analyses showed that the major cultural differences occurred with the more extreme figures. Ugandans rated the more obese female and the more anorexic male figures as more attractive than the British subjects. There were surprisingly few sex of subject or sex × culture of subject interactions. The results are discussed in terms of the burgeoning literature on cross‐cultural differences in the determinants of body image, stereotypic attractiveness, and eating disorders. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Sex differences in the perception of male and female body shapes

Cited by 65 publications

References 36 publications

Continuity and change in the evaluation of ideal and acceptable body sizes across a wide age span

Continuity and change in the evaluation of ideal and acceptable body sizes across a wide age span

Predicting adult health and mortality from adolescent facial characteristics in yearbook photographs

Cross-cultural differences in the evaluation of male and female body shapes

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