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Both sexes perceived big-breasted women as more reproductively efficient, desirous and promiscuous, but less faithful and intelligent, though there was no truth to these projections. ----- Stereotypical and Actual Associations of Breast Size with Mating-Relevant Traits
between breast size and respiratory infections may seem to contradict the claim that size of costly traits (e.g., breasts) should be positively associated with the individual’s quality, including health. However, evolutionary biology theorists have argued that it sometimes pays individuals of higher genetic quality to invest in mating at the expense of health to the extent that they are more attractive and have higher reproductive success but are less healthy than conspecifics of a lower quality (Getty, 2002; Kokko, 2001). Indeed, studies on nonhuman animals revealed both positive and negative correlations between putative cues to genetic quality and survival rate (Jennions, Møller, & Petrie, 2001). It is therefore possible that women of high biological quality have more symmetric bodies (because of higher developmental stability), larger breasts (because they can afford it), and worse infectious health (because of a particular life strategy being adopted).
large-breasted women as more promiscuous, less faithful, and less intelligent, and these characteristics being known to be much more preferable or acceptable in the context of a short-term than a long-term relationship (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Regan, Levin, Sprecher, Christopher, & Cate, 2000). In general, our results for perception of breast attractiveness are compatible with those reported in studies that applied visual stimuli not calibrated for the breast size distribution in the local population (Dixson et al., 2011b, 2015; Gründl et al., 2009; Swami & Tovée, 2013a, b; Zelazniewicz & Pawlowski, 2011).
between breast size and respiratory infections may seem to contradict the claim that size of costly traits (e.g., breasts) should be positively associated with the individual’s quality, including health. However, evolutionary biology theorists have argued that it sometimes pays individuals of higher genetic quality to invest in mating at the expense of health to the extent that they are more attractive and have higher reproductive success but are less healthy than conspecifics of a lower quality (Getty, 2002; Kokko, 2001). Indeed, studies on nonhuman animals revealed both positive and negative correlations between putative cues to genetic quality and survival rate (Jennions, Møller, & Petrie, 2001). It is therefore possible that women of high biological quality have more symmetric bodies (because of higher developmental stability), larger breasts (because they can afford it), and worse infectious health (because of a particular life strategy being adopted).
large-breasted women as more promiscuous, less faithful, and less intelligent, and these characteristics being known to be much more preferable or acceptable in the context of a short-term than a long-term relationship (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Regan, Levin, Sprecher, Christopher, & Cate, 2000). In general, our results for perception of breast attractiveness are compatible with those reported in studies that applied visual stimuli not calibrated for the breast size distribution in the local population (Dixson et al., 2011b, 2015; Gründl et al., 2009; Swami & Tovée, 2013a, b; Zelazniewicz & Pawlowski, 2011).
