Why Women Wear High Heels: Evolution, Lumbar Curvature, and Attractiveness

Why Women Wear High Heels: Evolution, Lumbar Curvature, and Attractiveness

Despite the widespread use of high-heeled footwear in both developing and modernized societies, we lack an understanding of this behavioral phenomenon at both proximate and distal levels of explanation. The current manuscript advances and tests a novel, evolutionarily anchored hypothesis for why wom...

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Main Authors: David M. G. Lewis, Eric M. Russell, Laith Al-Shawaf, Vivian Ta, Zeynep Senveli, William Ickes, David M. Buss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
evolutionary psychology
mate preferences
lumbar curvature
high heels
physical attractiveness
cultural evolution
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875/full

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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875/full

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