Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Dawida, 1, 50-527 Wroclaw, Poland.
Body Image. 2012 Sep;9(4):510-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.07.002. Epub 2012 Aug 4.
Many studies in Western societies have shown that women prefer relatively taller men as potential partners, whereas men prefer women who are slightly shorter than themselves. Here, we discuss possible limitations of previous results within the context of the stimuli used (i.e., differences in the perceived body size of female silhouettes). Our results show that, at least in a Polish sample (N=231), modified stimuli did not essentially change the observed male-taller preferences. In contrast, we report height preferences in a traditional ethnic group, the Datoga people from Tanzania (N=107), in which men and women preferred extreme sexual dimorphism in stature (SDS) sets (i.e., men and women chose women much taller or much shorter than themselves). Thus, our data do not accord with the suggestion of a universal preference for taller men, but rather suggests that height preferences may be influenced by cultural, environmental, and ecological conditions.
许多西方社会的研究表明，女性更喜欢相对较高的男性作为潜在伴侣，而男性则更喜欢比自己矮一点的女性。在这里，我们将讨论在使用的刺激物（即女性轮廓感知身体大小的差异）的背景下，先前结果的可能局限性。我们的结果表明，至少在波兰样本（N=231）中，经过修改的刺激物并没有从根本上改变观察到的男性更高偏好。相比之下，我们报告了在坦桑尼亚的传统族群达戈巴人（N=107）中的身高偏好，其中男性和女性都偏爱身高极端的性别二态性（SDS）（即男性和女性选择比自己高得多或矮得多的女性）。因此，我们的数据与普遍偏爱更高男性的说法不一致，而是表明身高偏好可能受到文化、环境和生态条件的影响。
