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Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua (2018)
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Thornborrow, T., Jucker, J.-L., Boothroyd, L., & Tovée, M. (2018). Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(5), 538-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.005

The different levels of media access in otherwise very similar villages in rural Nicaragua provided a natural laboratory to explore the effect of television (TV) access on men's preferences for female body size and shape. In study 1 we compared the f... Read More about Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua.