Beyond Desirable in North America: an examination of actual and ideal body preferences, and body attractiveness preferences in a heterosexual sample of men and women from the USA

Abstract A recent Australian study demonstrated that both men and women want to have less body fat and more muscularity than they perceived that they had, and that men and women’s body ideals are more extreme than the opposite sex finds most attractive. The present study aimed to provide more eviden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel Talbot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023-12-01
Series:Discover Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-023-00108-z