Image: B. Pawlowski/P. Sorokowski
Legs come in all shapes and sizes 鈥 but it seems the stereotype of long legs being more desirable really does hold true.
Taller people are generally perceived to be more attractive. However, Boguslaw Pawlowski and Piotr Sorokowski at the University of Wroclaw in Poland wanted to investigate whether relative leg lengths affected such perceptions.
They asked 218 male and female volunteers to rate the attractiveness of seven male and seven female images, altered so that they were the same height but with leg lengths that varied 5, 10 and 15 per cent from the Polish national…
