The Body Beautiful : Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives

Attempts to provide definitive answers to the secrets of human beauty have persisted for hundreds of years. In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore the questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive. The research and theoretical contributions presented in this volume offer a fresh perspective to understanding the perception of attractiveness, particularly as it relates to bodily attractiveness.