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All humans involved to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because they signal a potential mate's reproductive potential. Right, Actually, a new study finds that cultural norms can also play a big part at least when it comes to big feet.Once women give birth, their feet tend to grow larger, which means small feet are markers for youth and futility1 and thus should be universally attractive. A previous study did find a wide spread small foot preference, but university of Washington anthropologist2 Geoff Kushnick tested the hypothesis again among rural indonesians called the KaroBatak. when 159 men and women looked at a series of female figures, identical except for subtly different foot sizes. Surprisingly the KaroBatak rated the image with the largest feet, the most attractive , the work is in the journal human nature. Among the KaroBatak and other rural societies with low exposure to media. Large feet are signs of a woman's strength and ability to agricultural work. This cultural big for bias3 contradicts the notion of universal ideal's beauty. Attractiveness is not one-size-fits-all.
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2 anthropologist | |
n.人类学家,人类学者 | |
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n.偏见,偏心,偏袒;vt.使有偏见 | |
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