Women's Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Female Attractiveness

Ella Kleynerman

Advisor: Dr. Devendra Singh

This project will be carried out as part of the honors thesis program in the psychology department of the University. Here's a tentative description of the project. Past research has found that both women and men find certain waist-to-hip ratios (WHR) attractive in the opposite sex. The "ideal" female WHR is approximately 0.7. Both men and women have indicated that line drawings of women with this WHR is more attractive than higher WHR's. I would like to examine how women view and behave toward other women who have the ideal WHR (i.e. do they want to befriend them or claw their eyes out).