Macken Murphy

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

It's also like a practical thing of like, oh, if we're in a famine right now, these women can definitely get pregnant.

These women definitely can't.

Yes, this is what's so much more difficult to explain.

And the leading hypothesis, I would say, for why thinness is preferred in abundance is because it's a very reliable signal to youth and nulliparity.

The switches are very small in those studies.

So we're talking about like a 10 pound difference.

I believe the dining hall study, for example, which has been replicated, it is pretty cool, where it's men going into a dining hall versus coming out.

Yeah.

It was a small shift.

It wasn't like they were preferring completely different looking women.

But the cross-cultural stuff where it's really big differences in environment, then you're seeing genuinely different beauty standards.

And a lot of people say it's interesting how much Western male psychology often resists this.

I've had interviewers really push back on me like,

Isn't this just that they're taking what they can get?

These men don't have options, and so they have to go with the bigger women.

And I'm like, no, no, no, you're not understanding.

They are given a chart of body types and asked what's attractive and to what degree.

at the bar, that's all that's left.

That's really cool.

Yeah, I like that.

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