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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Research Report A CRITICAL TEST OF THE WAIST-TO-HIP-RATIO HYPOTHESIS OF FEMALE PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS 1 2 Louis G. Tassinary and Kristi A. Hansen 1Environmental Psychophysiology Laboratory and 2Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Texas AM University Abstract—Recent research has led to increasingly sophisticated con- these limitations, we constructed a new set of simple stimuli in which jectures as to the roles that genetic heritage, prior experience, and we systematically and independently varied weight, waist size, and hip environmental context play in the production and maintenance of com- size (cf. Brandon, 1994; Platt, 1964). plex behaviors. The field of evolutionary psychology was born of such conjectures (Stanley, 1895) and now serves as a niche for a growing METHOD number of researchers (Buss, 1995; Kenrick, 1994). One of the more provocative lines of experimental research to emerge from this alembic derives from the linkage of evolutionary theories of human mate selec- Research Participants tion with definitions of physical attractiveness based on somatic char- acteristics that simultaneously signal attractiveness and predict One hundred and thirty-six undergraduates (83 women, 53 men) reproductive potential (Buss, 1989). The waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) has received credit toward fulfilling a course requirement in r