Macken Murphy

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

So the status link is really interesting, what you're saying is really interesting, and it does fit with the cross-cultural beautification research as well where what we see is that I would say broadly this isn't based on one study but many individual sites essentially.

So maybe you do a true cross-cultural regression and it doesn't come out.

But it does seem based on reading individual accounts that

In environments where food is abundant, the signal is like, oh, I'm going to increase movement and restrict calories.

And then you go to some places where they have the fattening huts, for example, where it's like restrict movement and increase calories in order to try and be more attractive.

What's a fattening hut?

So this is something that's seen in some cultures where women before marriage will restrict their movement and increase their caloric intake in order to- The beauty of a hut?

I don't know if it's always literally the case, but yeah.

Where's the hut?

There's actually even, I was reading one account and I can't remember which, I think it was Mauritania, but I'm not sure.

where it was them talking about how, and I really realized like, oh, this is a beauty preference.

Like this, this is real.

Um, because they were having to stop the men from spying on the women who were in the fattening huts because they were coveting, they were coveting this, right?

So it was like, so it was like, they really wanted to see.

That's a scent.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So I would say that the status thing is interesting.

I have no doubt that that could be part of it.

But when I look at the full range of evidence and include the hunger studies, it's like, well, the status benefits of thinness or fatness are the same when you're going into the dining hall versus coming out and the mate preference is still shifting.

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