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dc.contributor.authorPerrett, David I.
dc.contributor.authorLei, Xue
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-26T09:30:01Z
dc.date.available2020-05-26T09:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.identifier.citationPerrett , D I & Lei , X 2021 , ' Misperceptions of opposite-sex preferences for thinness and muscularity ' , British Journal of Psychology , vol. 112 , no. 1 , pp. 247-264 . https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12451en
dc.identifier.issn0007-1269
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 267649508
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 0ec460bc-46b1-4c51-9fc8-00801cf422d2
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6025-0939/work/74872954
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85085600285
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000535058400001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19993
dc.descriptionThe data that support the findings of this study will be openly available in Mendeley Data at http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/769zgnsm9w.1 following an embargo from 2020-08-09.en
dc.description.abstractThin and muscular have been characterized as ideals for women and men, respectively. Little research has investigated whether men and women have accurate perceptions of opposite‐sex preferences of thinness and muscularity. Further, no study has explored whether opposite‐sex perceptions of thinness and muscularity preferences differ for short‐term and long‐term relationships. The present study set out to address these questions. We used interactive 3D human models to represent bodies varying in size (body mass index/BMI weight scaled by height) and body composition. University‐aged (18–31) White European heterosexual men and women were asked to choose their own and ideal body shape, the ideal body shape for a short‐ and a long‐term partner, and the body shape they thought the opposite‐sex would most like for short‐ and long‐term partners. Women overestimated the thinness that men prefer in a partner and men overestimated the heaviness and muscularity that women prefer in a partner. These misperceptions were more exaggerated for short‐term relationships than for long‐term relationships. The results illustrate the importance of investigating misperceptions of opposite‐sex preferences and raise the possibility that correcting misperceptions might have utility in reducing body dissatisfaction or eating disorders.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Journal of Psychologyen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectAttractivenessen
dc.subjectBody sizeen
dc.subjectMisperceptionen
dc.subjectMuscularityen
dc.subjectPreferencesen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleMisperceptions of opposite-sex preferences for thinness and muscularityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12451
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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