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The study of bodily attractiveness is important to evolutionary psychology and contributes more generally to an understanding of beauty. The fundamental questions within this literature are: how do we judge bodily beauty, and what are the physical cues for bodily attractiveness? And finally, are these cues related to health and reproduction? This chapter reviews past works on bodily attractiveness, introduces a new body index — the volume-height index (VHI) — and discusses the influence of VHI and other body parameters on bodily attractiveness.
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Fan, J. (2007). The Volume-Height Index as a Body Attractiveness Index. In: Swami, V., Furnham, A. (eds) The Body Beautiful. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596887_3
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