Undergraduate men, 94 nonUS Muslims and 168 US Judaic-Christians, rated 9 outline figure drawings as like their own current figure, what they would prefer to look like, what figure was most attractive to females, and what female figure they found most attractive. Ratings of the two groups were very similar but the female figure found most attractive was significantly thinner for Judaic-Christian men.
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