Was the Duchess of Windsor right?: A cross-cultural review of the socioecology of ideals of female body shape

Societies with unreliable food supplies and undeveloped food storage technology will tend to have plump standards of female beauty (215).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman Correlation Test	Supported	p < 0.05	0.280	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Food Security	Independent	Nutrition, Preservation And Storage Of Food, Diet
Ideal Female Body Type	Dependent	Sexual Stimulation

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Anderson, Judith L.	1992	Plump women will be seen as more attractive than slender women in most cultures (216).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Anderson, Judith L.	1992	Cultures will have a plump standard of beauty when women's work is not valued highly, or when women are restricted in the times and situations in which they can work (207).	Some support	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1984	Extensive menstrual taboos will be positively associated with emic emphasis on the initiate's change in body, status, or behavior (140-141)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Anderson, Judith L.	1992	Cold climates (high latitude) will tend to be associated with relatively fat standards of beauty and warm climates (low latitude) will tend to be associated with relatively thin standards of beauty (202,215).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Anderson, Judith L.	1992	The more likely girls are to experience adverse consequences from the development of sexual maturity, the thinner the standard of beauty (204/216).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author