[B]When placed under stressful situations, men rate larger women as more attractive, new research has shown.
[/B]British researchers found that men exposed to tasks that were designed to put them under pressure preferred a wider range of female body sizes.
They conclude that stress can act to alter judgments of potential partners.
The work by a team from London and Newcastle is [URL="http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042593"]published in the open access journal Plos One[/URL].
There's a lot of literature suggesting that our BMI (body mass index) preferences are hard-wired, but that's probably not true," co-author [URL="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/martin.tovee"]Dr Martin Tovee[/URL], from Newcastle University, told BBC News
Dr Tovee and his colleague, [URL="http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/directory/swami-dr-viren"]Dr Viren Swami[/URL], have previously researched what factors could alter BMI preferences, including publishing a paper in the [URL="http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.j.tovee/hunger.pdf"]British Journal of Psychology on the effect of hunger[/URL], and the influence of the media.
But through this new work they aimed to investigate whether known cross-cultural differences in body size preferences linked to stress were also mirrored in short-term stressful situations.
"[B]If you look at environments where food is scarce, people's preferences for body size in a potential partner are shifted. [The preference] appears to be much heavier compared to environments where there's plenty of food and a much more relaxed atmosphere,[/B]" he explained."If you're living a far more stressful, subsistence lifestyle, you're going to have higher stress levels."
To simulate heightened stress, a test group of men were placed in interview and public speaking scenarios and their BMI preferences compared against a control group of non-stressed men.
[B]
The results indicated that the change in "environmental conditions" led to a shift of weight preference towards heavier women with the men considering a wider range of body sizes attractive.
[/B]"These changes are comparatively minor in comparison to those you get between different [cross-cultural] environments. But they suggest certain factors which might combine with others and cause this shift," Dr Tovee said.
The research supports other work that has shown perceptions of physical attractiveness alter with levels of economic and physiological stress linked to lifestyle.
"If you follow people moving from low-resource areas to higher resource-areas, you find their preferences shift over the course of about 18 months. In evolutionary psychology terms, you try to fit your preferences to what works best in a particular environment," said Dr Tovee.
Moreover, the researchers were keen to emphasise how fluctuating environmental conditions could alter the popular perception of an "ideal" body size.
"There's a continual pushing down of the ideal, but this preference is flexible. [B]Changing the media, changing your lifestyle, all these things can change what you think is the ideal body size,[/B]" he said.
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19180983[/URL]
[QUOTE=aznz888;37150805][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0[/media][/QUOTE]
I see your Queen good Sir and I raise you Sir Mix-a-Lot:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTx5sqvVJ4[/media]
Stressed over all the other women I'm sure...
isn't big women love something to do with fucking your mother or something strange feud said. Then again feud freaked out about the number 62 and couldn't stay in a hotel with more than 62 rooms.
[QUOTE=Vasili;37151800]isn't big women love something to do with fucking your mother or something strange feud said. Then again feud freaked out about the number 62 and couldn't stay in a hotel with more than 62 rooms.[/QUOTE]
He also advised people to snort coke on a daily basis
there was some other one about waitresses getting hotter when the economy goes to shit
lately they've all been somewhere between megan fox and zooey deschanel
i don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing
[editline]9th August 2012[/editline]
nahhh it's a good thing
I have my own theory on why these results occurred. Mabey...JUST MABEY...After experiencing a lot of stress, guys just want to get laid, and their standards drop? I mean come on, after a long at work you just kinda want to relax and get laid. I don't really see this as surprising. I mean if you really want to get laid, your standards will slip.
Now that has nothing to do with the difference in preferences in other countries. I'm just saying that this test group in particular had this effect.
I'm laid back as shit and like bigger women, fuck your study
[QUOTE=will721;37151903]I have my own theory on why these results occurred. Mabey...JUST MABEY...After experiencing a lot of stress, guys just want to get laid, and their standards drop? I mean come on, after a long at work you just kinda want to relax and get laid. I don't really see this as surprising. I mean if you really want to get laid, your standards will slip.
Now that has nothing to do with the difference in preferences in other countries. I'm just saying that this test group in particular had this effect.[/QUOTE]
Standards? You know, 100% of the male population doesn't chase after supermodel tail. I myself, for example, don't find super model types hot at all (that could be due to the general downward spiral of modelling "beauty" standards these days...) There's definitely some other explanation to this.
[QUOTE=will721;37151903]I have my own theory on why these results occurred. Mabey...JUST MABEY...After experiencing a lot of stress, guys just want to get laid, and their standards drop? I mean come on, after a long at work you just kinda want to relax and get laid. I don't really see this as surprising. I mean if you really want to get laid, your standards will slip.
Now that has nothing to do with the difference in preferences in other countries. I'm just saying that this test group in particular had this effect.[/QUOTE]I wouldn't regard getting laid as relaxing if I'm stressed out, too much effort needed.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;37152040]Standards? You know, 100% of the male population doesn't chase after supermodel tail. I myself, for example, don't find super model types hot at all (that could be due to the general downward spiral of modelling "beauty" standards these days...) There's definitely some other explanation to this.[/QUOTE] Oh I didn't mean to sounds as though all men prefer super models. I was talking about in general slip in standards. As the study points out, the men who were stressed began to prefer a wider range of women. I assume that would work both ways. If they had gathered men from the smaller group of males who prefer bigger women, I am sure that they would begin to like both skinnier women and even larger women. Now as for sex not releasing stress, the act of sex of course does not. But it's that end result, the "release" feeling. Your body releases endorphins which gives you a relaxed, sometimes tired feeling.
Well shit, that explains everything.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;37151200]I see your Queen good Sir and I raise you Sir Mix-a-Lot:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTx5sqvVJ4[/media][/QUOTE]
and I raise you
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE[/media]
[QUOTE=jakedog;37151819]He also advised people to snort coke on a daily basis[/QUOTE]
most people do in the business world anyway
[QUOTE=jakedog;37151819]He also advised people to snort coke on a daily basis[/QUOTE]
~420 snort coke erryday 420~
[QUOTE=Vasili;37151800]isn't big women love something to do with fucking your mother or something strange feud said. Then again feud freaked out about the number 62 and couldn't stay in a hotel with more than 62 rooms.[/QUOTE]
AFAIK nearly everything he said has been proven false and it's mostly on the same level as superstition now
[QUOTE=AK'z;37153292]and I raise you
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE[/media][/QUOTE]
Good... And I raise you
[video=youtube;eIri9YLHpOg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIri9YLHpOg[/video]
So this is why teens like aneroxic partners. They comparatively have little to no stress :v:
I must be really really really fucking stressed then
fake studies trying to justify the existence of fat chicks
i agree
in times of stress i also look to Christina Hendricks for help and guidance
So according to this, im really stressed. I dont care, I still love my girlfriend.
i'm size 16, and everyone says they like hugging me. its like i'm a big cushion, grown from 3 years of excessive xbox playing. my bf especially seems to like the squishy-ness. often using me as a pillow while he browses fp on my laptop.
my parents are now making me diet due to family history of bad hearts and thyroid gland problems, which they've only just told me about.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;37161950]i look towards her for other reasons
[img]http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/christina-hendricks2.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Her huge boobs?
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