naa a22 4500 510773907 CHVBK 20180411083224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12110-013-9171-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12110-013-9171-2 Kushnick Geoff Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, 98195-3100, Seattle, WA, USA aut Why Do the Karo Batak Prefer Women with Big Feet? [Elektronische Daten] Flexible Mate Preferences and the Notion That One Size Fits All [Geoff Kushnick] Men may find women with small feet relative to body size more attractive because foot size reliably indexes nubility—i.e., age and parity. I collected judgments of attractiveness in response to drawings of women with varying foot sizes from a sample of 159 Karo Batak respondents from North Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of a collaborative project on foot size and attractiveness. The data revealed a contrarian preference among the Karo Batak for women with big feet. The judgments were compared with the results of an existing cross-cultural study that found a preference for women with small feet in aggregate, but a mix of small- and large-foot preferences in the societies taken individually. Using contingency table analysis, I found that ecology and less exposure to Western media were associated with a preference for women with big feet; patriarchal values were not. The findings suggest that human mating preferences may arise in response to local ecological conditions, and may persist and spread via cultural transmission. This has implications for the concept of universality espoused in some versions of evolutionary psychology. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Mating preferences nationallicence Evolutionary psychology nationallicence Universality nationallicence Karo Batak nationallicence Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/3(2013-09-01), 268-279 1045-6767 24:3<268 2013 24 12110 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9171-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9171-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kushnick Geoff Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, 98195-3100, Seattle, WA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/3(2013-09-01), 268-279 1045-6767 24:3<268 2013 24 12110 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer