STUDY FINDS WOMEN IN HIGH HEELS AS MORE ATTRACTIVE AND HIGHER STATUS

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And you study as women in high heels are perceived
as more attractive, feminine, and higher status. It's a study
that was them with four hundred and forty eight college students.
Let's find out what they found. Results show that people
rated the silhouette wearing heels as more attractive, more feminine
and I've mentioned before, and less masculine than the silhouette
wearing flats. This is consistent with previous research that sugges

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women wear heels who bolster their attractiveness. There were no
significant differences with how participants rated personality such as intelligent
or affection or friendly. This is rare in sexualization, which
usually serves to also be little women's intelligence. But the
study sought to expand the body of research on how
wearing high heels can affect perceived attractiveness. Despite this, it

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had limitations. One such limitations that the study of utilized
silhouettes rather than real people, which could affect the perception
of participants. Additionally, the sample was largely homogenous, making it
difficult to know if results could generalize. I think they
were all heterosexual males as well that they had looking
at this. It doesn't say it was it females as well,

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doesn't say if it's male or end females. So I'm
assuming it's head sexual males, but I could be completely
wrong on that. It could be both male and female.
So the study is called on a pedestal high heels
and the perceived attractiveness and evolutionary fitness of women. So
there is a reason why women wear high heels and

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why it's always been appealing. Now it looks like psychology,
and another study backs it up.