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References from Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
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‘Mirror, mirror on the wall …?’: Contrast effects and self-evaluations of physical attractiveness
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Do Polynesians still believe that big is beautiful? Comparison of body size and preferences of Cook Island Maori and Australians
1996 · External reference
Prejudice against fat people: Ideology and self-interest
10.1037/0022-3514.66.5.882 · 1994 · External reference
Predicting female attractiveness: A second look at thinness and waist-to-hip ratio
10.1080/14616660310001632572 · 2003 · External reference
Asians are different from Caucasians and from each other in their body mass index/body fat percentage relationship
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Body mass index and percent body fat: A meta analysis among different ethnic groups
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The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percent among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore
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Seven tenths incorrect: Heterogeneity and change in the waist-to-hip ratios of Playboy centrefolds models and Miss America pageant winners
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10.1038/scientificamerican0388-88 · 1988 · External reference
Cross-cultural differences in the perception of female body-shapes
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Cross-cultural differences in the evaluation of male and female body shapes
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A cross-cultural comparison of ratings of perceived fecundity and sexual attractiveness as a function of body weight and waist-to-hip ratio
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A cross-cultural study on the role of weight and waist-to-hip ratio on judgements of women's attractiveness
10.1016/s0191-8869(01)00073-3 · 2002 · External reference
Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: A replication and extension
10.1016/s0191-8869(96)00241-3 · 1997 · External reference
Cultural expectations of thinness in women
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1997 · External reference
Social factors in obesity
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2000 · External reference
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2001 · External reference
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Does interpersonal attraction to thin media personalities promote eating disorders?
10.1080/08838159709364422 · 1997 · External reference
Body image and televised images of thinness and attractiveness: A controlled laboratory investigation
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Waist-to-hip ratio and female attractiveness
10.1016/s0191-8869(99)00115-4 · 2000 · External reference
Sociocultural and developmental theories as explanations of body image dissatisfaction amongst secondary school girls
2000 · External reference
Obesity in Malaysia
10.1046/j.1467-789x.2002.00074.x · 2002 · External reference
Evolutionary theory versus the confederacy of dunces
10.1207/s15327965pli0601_10 · 1995 · External reference
Obesity as a medical problem
10.1038/35007508 · 2000 · External reference
Women's reproductive health: The role of body mass index in early and adult life
10.1038/sj.ijo.0800424 · 1997 · External reference
Reconsidering the status of anorexia nervosa as a Western culture-bound syndrome
10.1016/0277-9536(95)00074-7 · 1996 · External reference
Global modernity and eating disorders in Asia
10.1002/(sici)1099-0968(199809)6:3<151::aid-erv256>3.0.co;2-3 · 1998 · External reference
Disordered eating in three communities of China: A comparative study of female high school students in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and rural Hunan
10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(200004)27:3<317::aid-eat9>3.0.co;2-2 · 2000 · External reference
Characteristics of male attractiveness for women
10.1016/s0140-6736(99)00438-9 · 1999 · External reference
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1998 · External reference
Body weight and mortality among women
10.1056/nejm199509143331101 · 1995 · External reference
Preadolescents’ perceptions of females’ body size and shape: Evolutionary and social learning perspectives
10.1023/a:1014022010577 · 2002 · External reference
Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology
10.1016/s0191-8869(00)00039-8 · 2001 · External reference
Obesity in Samoans and a perspective in its aetiology in Polynesians
10.1093/ajcn/53.6.1586s · 1991 · External reference
Relation of central adiposity and insulin resistance with high diabetes prevalence and cardiovascular risk in South Asians
10.1016/0140-6736(91)91164-p · 1991 · External reference
Culture and eating disorders: A historical and cross-cultural review
10.1521/psyc.64.2.93.18621 · 2001 · External reference
The changing shape of female fashion models
10.1002/1098-108x(198909)8:5<593::aid-eat2260080511>3.0.co;2-h · 1989 · External reference
Eating disorders: The cultural dimension
10.1007/bf01794786 · 1988 · External reference
Screening for abnormal eating attitudes in a population of Egyptian secondary school girls
1994 · External reference
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1997 · External reference
Guidance and counselling in Malaysia: An emerging profession
2001 · External reference
Dieting and binging
10.1037/0003-066x.40.2.193 · 1985 · External reference
Reducing the impact of media images on women at risk for body image disturbance: Three targeted interventions
10.1521/jscp.20.3.324.22308 · 2001 · External reference
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1980 · External reference
Predicting female physical attractiveness: Waist-to-hip ratio versus thinness
10.1080/14616660110049573 · 2001 · External reference
Weight related changes in reproductive function
10.1016/s0015-0282(16)59581-8 · 1987 · External reference
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1974 · External reference
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The role of the mass media in promoting a thin standard of bodily attractiveness for women
10.1007/bf00287452 · 1986 · External reference
Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio
10.1037/0022-3514.65.2.293 · 1993 · External reference
Body shape and women's attractiveness. The critical role of waist-to-hip ratio
10.1007/bf02692203 · 1993 · External reference
Is thin really beautiful and good? Relationship between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and female attractiveness
10.1016/0191-8869(94)90116-3 · 1994 · External reference
Waist-to-hip ratio and judgements of attractiveness and healthiness of females’ figures by male and female physicians
1994 · External reference
Female judgement of male attractiveness and desirability for relationships: Role of waist-to-hip ratio and financial status
10.1037/0022-3514.69.6.1089 · 1995 · External reference
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Female mate value at a glance: Relationship of waist-to-hip ratio to health, fecundity and attractiveness
2002 · External reference
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Ethnic and gender consensus for the effect of waist-to-hip ratio on judgements of women's attractiveness
10.1007/bf02734135 · 1995 · External reference
Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgements of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships
10.1016/0162-3095(95)00074-7 · 1995 · External reference
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Developmental transitions at middle school and college
1996 · External reference
Body mass index and body girths as predictors of mortality in black and white women
10.1001/archinte.152.6.1257 · 1992 · External reference
Waist–hip ratio and attractiveness: New evidence and a critique for a ‘critical test’
10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00121-6 · 2003 · External reference
Is beauty in the context-sensitive adaptations of the beholder? Shiwiar use of waist-to-hip ratio in assessments of female mate value
10.1016/s1090-5138(03)00083-7 · 2004 · External reference
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1979 · External reference
Beauty is the adaptations of the beholder: The evolutionary psychology of human female sexual attractiveness
1995 · External reference
The mystery of human beauty
10.1038/20345 · 1999 · External reference
Female and male perceptions of female physical attractiveness in front-view and profile
10.1348/000712601162257 · 2001 · External reference
Human female attractiveness: Waveform analysis of body shape
10.1098/rspb.2002.2133 · 2002 · External reference
Visual cues to female physical attractiveness
10.1098/rspb.1999.0624 · 1999 · External reference
Supermodels: Stick insects or hourglasses?
10.1016/s0140-6736(05)64238-9 · 1997 · External reference
Optimum body-mass index and maximum sexual attractiveness
10.1016/s0140-6736(05)79257-6 · 1998 · External reference
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1977 · External reference
Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: Trend analysis
10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1447 · 2002 · External reference
The nutritional status and dietary pattern of Chinese adolescents, 1991 and 1993
10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600664 · 1993 · External reference
Asians have lower body mass index (BMI) but higher percentage body fat than do Whites: Comparisons of anthropometric measurements
10.1093/ajcn/60.1.23 · 1994 · External reference
An android body fat distribution in females impairs the pregnancy rate of in-vitro fertilisation–embryo transfer
10.1093/humrep/12.9.2057 · 1997 · External reference
How universal are preferences for female waist-to-hip ratios? Evidence from the Hadza of Tanzania
10.1016/s1090-5138(99)00007-0 · 1999 · External reference
An insight into the personal significance of weight and shape in large Samoan women
1994 · External reference
Weight, weight change and coronary heart disease in women: Risk within the ‘normal’ weight range
10.1001/jama.273.6.461 · 1995 · External reference
Cultural expectations of thinness in women: An update
10.1002/1098-108x(199201)11:1<85::aid-eat2260110112>3.0.co;2-t · 1992 · External reference
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
10.1038/24512 · 1998 · External reference
The mystery of female beauty—reply
10.1038/20348 · 1999 · External reference
Fat and female fecundity: Prospective study of effect of body fat distribution on conception rates
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