The face on the left is a composite of eight women with “unusually small feet.” The face on the right is a composite of “eight women with unusually large feet.” …The morphs were created by evolutionary psychologists… These morphs were then rated for attractiveness by 77 heterosexual male students. The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and Rowe found. continue reading… boingboing 

The face on the left is a composite of eight women with “unusually small feet.” The face on the right is a composite of “eight women with unusually large feet.” …The morphs were created by evolutionary psychologists…

These morphs were then rated for attractiveness by 77 heterosexual male students. The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and Rowe found.

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  1. likemonsters reblogged this from maxasaurus and added:
    super interesting. i love psychology. i am
  2. maxasaurus reblogged this from themarmalade and added:
    Sarah, you only have big feet b/c of that Hobbit blood in you. Jodi has tiinnny little feet. They’re like, ankles with...
  3. dendroica said: So the proof for their claim about feet lies in two faces they made up? Nonsense.
  4. tovarich reblogged this from love-crumbs and added:
    I HATE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY. Phrenology is more legit, in my opinion.
  5. hermione-the-feminist reblogged this from brooklynmutt and added:
    chinese footbinding…
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