{"id":391839,"date":"2010-03-04T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:00:33","slug":"ncbi-rofl-women%e2%80%99s-bust-size-and-men%e2%80%99s-courtship-solicitation-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/391839","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: Women\u2019s bust size and men\u2019s courtship solicitation. | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7114\" title=\"2175281805_9f87fe28a2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/03\/2175281805_9f87fe28a2.jpg\" alt=\"2175281805_9f87fe28a2\" width=\"281\" height=\"186\"\/>&#8220;Previous studies have found that women with larger breasts than the average were considered to be more physically attractive. In these studies attractiveness was measured with the help of silhouette figures or photographs and the effect of breast size on men&#8217;s behaviour was not considered. In this study two experiments were carried out in order to test the effect of a woman&#8217;s breast size on approaches made by males. <span id=\"more-7108\"><\/span>We hypothesized that an increase in breast size would be associated with an increase in approaches by men. A young female confederate was instructed to wear a bra that permitted her to artificially vary her breast size. In the first experiment the female confederate was instructed to sit in a nightclub for one hour whereas in the second experiment she was instructed to take a seat in a pavement area of a bar. It was found that increasing the breast size of the female confederate was associated with an increasing number of approaches by men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18089285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7109\" title=\"bust\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/03\/bust.jpg\" alt=\"bust\" width=\"451\" height=\"196\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>Photo: flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cane_rosso\/2175281805\/\">Cane Rosso<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related content:<br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/03\/24\/bust-size-and-hitchhiking-a-field-study\/\">NCBI ROFL: Bust size and hitchhiking: a field study<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/26\/ncbi-rofl-eye-tracking-of-mens-preferences-for-female-breast-size-and-areola-pigmentation\/\">NCBI ROFL: Eye Tracking of Men\u2019s Preferences for Female Breast Size and Areola Pigmentation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UbakNY69hJsSxMwYqhFePDHiY9w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UbakNY69hJsSxMwYqhFePDHiY9w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UbakNY69hJsSxMwYqhFePDHiY9w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UbakNY69hJsSxMwYqhFePDHiY9w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/kUeluztf5B8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Previous studies have found that women with larger breasts than the average were considered to be more physically attractive. In these studies attractiveness was measured with the help of silhouette figures or photographs and the effect of breast size on men&#8217;s behaviour was not considered. 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