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Evolutionary psychologists have been interested in male preferences for particular female traits that are thought to signal health and reproductive potential.While the majority of studies have focused on what makes specific body traits attractive- such as the waist-To-hip ratio, the body mass index, and breasts shape and size-There is little empirical research that has examinedindividual differences inmale preferences for specific traits (e.g., favoring breasts over buttocks). The current study begins to fill this empirical gap. In the first experiment (Study 1), 184 male participants were asked to report their preference between breasts and buttocks on a continuous scale. We found that (1) the distribution of preference was bimodal, indicating that Argentinean males tended to define themselves as favoring breasts or buttocks but rarely thinking that these traits contributed equally to their choice and (2) the distributionwas biased towardsbuttocks. Inasecondexperiment(Study2), 19maleparticipants were asked to rate pictures of female breasts and buttocks. This studywas necessary to generate three categories of pictures with statistically different ratings (high, medium, and low). In a third experiment (Study 3), we recorded eye-movements of 25 male participants while they chose the more attractive between twowomen, only seeing their breasts and buttock.We found that the first and last fixations were systematically directed towards the self-reported preferred trait. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Eye fixations indicate men's preference for female breasts or buttocks
Autor:Dagnino, B.; Navajas, J.; Sigman, M.
Filiación:Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires, PC 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Breasts; Buttocks; Eye tracking; Sexual choice; Sexual preference; adolescent; adult; art; article; attention; esthetics; eye movement; female; human; male; photostimulation; physiology; vision; waist hip ratio; Adolescent; Adult; Attention; Beauty; Eye Movements; Female; Human Body; Humans; Male; Photic Stimulation; Visual Perception; Waist-Hip Ratio
Año:2012
Volumen:41
Número:4
Página de inicio:929
Página de fin:937
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9945-3
Título revista:Archives of Sexual Behavior
Título revista abreviado:Arch. Sex. Behav.
ISSN:00040002
CODEN:ASXBA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00040002_v41_n4_p929_Dagnino

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Dagnino, B., Navajas, J. & Sigman, M. (2012) . Eye fixations indicate men's preference for female breasts or buttocks. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41(4), 929-937.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9945-3
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Dagnino, B., Navajas, J., Sigman, M. "Eye fixations indicate men's preference for female breasts or buttocks" . Archives of Sexual Behavior 41, no. 4 (2012) : 929-937.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9945-3
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Dagnino, B., Navajas, J., Sigman, M. "Eye fixations indicate men's preference for female breasts or buttocks" . Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 41, no. 4, 2012, pp. 929-937.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9945-3
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Dagnino, B., Navajas, J., Sigman, M. Eye fixations indicate men's preference for female breasts or buttocks. Arch. Sex. Behav. 2012;41(4):929-937.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9945-3