caa a22 4500 606232214 CHVBK 20210128101225.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0422-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0422-z Guéguen Nicolas Department of Social Behavior, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Campus Tohanic, 56000, Vannes, France aut High Heels Increase Women's Attractiveness [Elektronische Daten] [Nicolas Guéguen] Research has found that the appearance of women's apparel helps increase their attractiveness as rated by men and that men care more about physical features in potential opposite-sex mates. However, the effect of sartorial appearance has received little interest from scientists. In a series of studies, the length of women's shoe heels was examined. A woman confederate wearing black shoes with 0, 5, or 9cm heels asked men for help in various circumstances. In Study 1, she asked men to respond to a short survey on gender equality. In Study 2, the confederate asked men and women to participate in a survey on local food habit consumption. In Study 3, men and women in the street were observed while walking in back of the female confederate who dropped a glove apparently unaware of her loss. It was found that men's helping behavior increased as soon as heel length increased. However, heel length had no effect on women's helping behavior. It was also found that men spontaneously approached women more quickly when they wore high-heeled shoes (Study 4). Change in gait, foot-size judgment, and misattribution of sexiness and sexual intent were used as possible explanations. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Women nationallicence Attractiveness nationallicence Sartorial appearance nationallicence Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2227-2235 0004-0002 44:8<2227 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0422-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0422-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Guéguen Nicolas Department of Social Behavior, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Campus Tohanic, 56000, Vannes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2227-2235 0004-0002 44:8<2227 2015 44 10508