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Researchers show decapitated me bodies to women, ask them to rate them by attractiveness.
(b) Research question no. 1: how much variance in male bodily attractiveness is explained by looking strong?
To answer this question, we computed the average ratings of attractiveness and strength for each photographed subject. We then regressed the average rating for strength against the average rating for attractiveness. Scatterplots are shown in figure 2, and illustrate that most of the variance in attractiveness is accounted for by ratings of strength (R2 varied from 0.61 for side photos of Set 1 to 0.73 for front photos of both Set 1 and Set 2).
(c) Research question no. 2: is there a linear or curvilinear relationship between physical strength and attractiveness in men? (A test of the ‘inverted-U’ hypothesis)
Frederick & Haselton [13] have argued there may be a curviinear relationship between strength and attractiveness such that extremely strong men may be less attractive than moderately strong men. The scatterplots in figure 2 show no evidence of this.