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High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness
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It is concluded that high heels exaggerate sex specific aspects of female gait and women walking in high heels could be regarded as a supernormal stimulus.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 75 citations till now.read more
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Religion and morality.
Ryan McKay,Harvey Whitehouse +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that to make progress, the categories “religion” and “morality” must be fractionated into a set of biologically and psychologically cogent traits, revealing the cognitive foundations that shape and constrain relevant cultural variants.
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High-heeled shoes and musculoskeletal injuries: a narrative systematic review
Maxwell S. Barnish,Jean Barnish +1 more
TL;DR: High-heeled shoes were shown to be associated with hallux valgus, musculoskeletal pain and first-party injury, and no conclusive evidence regarding OA and second- party injury was found.
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An Updated Theoretical Framework for Human Sexual Selection: from Ecology, Genetics, and Life History to Extended Phenotypes
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical framework of human sexual selection is updated by unifying four theoretical approaches and conceptualizing non-bodily traits as extended phenotypic traits, which can influence sexual selection even in absence of the phenotype proper.
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An Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement Behavior.
Adam C. Davis,Steven Arnocky +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that evidence from the field of evolutionary psychology can complement existing sociocultural models by yielding unique insight into the historical and cross-cultural ubiquity of competition over aspects of physical appearance to embody what is desired by potential mates.
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High Heels Increase Women's Attractiveness.
TL;DR: A series of studies found that men’s helping behavior increased as soon as heel length increased, and that men spontaneously approached women more quickly when they wore high-heeled shoes, while change in gait, foot-size judgment, and misattribution of sexiness and sexual intent were used as possible explanations.
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Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that females value cues to resource acquisition in potential mates more highly than males, while males valued earning capacity, ambition, industriousness, youth, physical attractiveness, and chastity.
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Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review.
Judith H. Langlois,Lisa Kalakanis,Adam J. Rubenstein,Andrea Larson,Monica Hallam,Monica Smoot +5 more
TL;DR: Eleven meta-analyses evaluate social and fitness-related evolutionary theories and the veracity of maxims about beauty to demonstrate that raters agree about who is and is not attractive, both within and across cultures.
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The Study Of Instinct
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the internal factors responsible for the'spontaneity' of behaviour and the external stimuli responsible for its response to external stimuli, as well as the evolution of behaviour.