Men - does being ripped make you a more attractive partner?
I was perusing the news over lunch today when this article caught my eye (I can't imagine why!), I had a read and my eyes began to involuntarily roll. This was another of those terrible evo-psych papers I've written about in the past , wasn’t it? After having read the paper the article is based on, and after rescuing my eyes after they fell out of my head and onto the floor from rolling so much, I regret to inform you that yes, it is. The basic set up for the research is that they have a series of photos of men and they ask people to judge the strength of the man in the photo based on the physique of his torso and rate his attractiveness. (I'll get to the 'why' later). The first thing to note is that it's all a bit of a mess. I will try and be brief with the explanation of the method as I know it's incredibly tedious to read, but it really has to be seen to be believed. They have two separate sets of photos, both taken from prior research. The f...