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Article: The influence of resource availability on preferences for human body weight and non-human objects.
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- Journal of Articles in Support of the Hypothesis
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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It has been proposed that there may be a general psychological mechanism which interacts with resource availability to influence preferences for human body weight, which may also extend to non-human objects. To test this hypothesis, we first replicated previous studies of preferences for human body weight using a new set of line drawings. The results of this study showed that hunger, as a proxy for resource availability, elicited a preference for a slightly heavier body weight. We then designed three studies that manipulated the size of different objects (an anvil, an empty milk bottle, and differently-filled bottles) and asked participants to rate these for aesthetic ...