Cafeteria Study
Story★★★A really funny study was done of college men. It’s called the cafeteria study. They found that the BMI of what was considered attractive by these college males shifts based on how hungry they were. So the higher BMI was considered more attractive when they were more hungry. The lower BMIs were considered more attractive when they were full. And the commenters on the study were joking, ‘Were they more attractive because they wanted to eat them?’
Arruda, Gabriel, “03 What Makes People Attractive and Why Attractive People Can Be Dangerous” (AudioVerse teaching 41570).
The point
A study shows that hunger influences what body type men find attractive, illustrating that attraction can be fickle and context-dependent.
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Humorous · Sobering
To tell aloud
under a minute · 77 words
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