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Gaze-tracking Study Apparently Confirms Everyone Really IS Staring At Your Chest
October 29, 2013 11:53 AM
By Chelsea Karnash

LINCOLN, NE (CBS) – A new study has confirmed something women have been complaining about for years.

The research, out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and published in the Springer-published journal Sex Roles, essentially corroborates the belief that people tend to focus more on the breasts and figure of a woman when analyzing her appearance than they do on her face.

According to researchers, the study was the first ever to use eye-tracking technology to examine the glances of men when the “ogle” or “check out” women, whereas previous research had used only women’s self-reported experiences.

After monitoring how the gazes of 29 women and 36 men from a large Midwestern university reacted to images of the same group of female models with various body shapes, scientists concluded that participants focused more on the female’s chests and figure when asked to evaluate their appearance than they did on the women’s facial features.

Unsurprisingly, women with narrow waists, full breasts and larger hips – the classic hourglass figure – were rated more favorably than their less voluptuous counterparts, even when men were asked to assess a woman’s personality (rather than attractiveness) based on her appearance in the photos.

But perhaps what’s most interesting is that women also tended to objectify other females in the same way that men did. They, too, spent more time focusing on figure than face.

“Generally speaking, people are more positive towards a more attractive woman than a less attractive one,” lead researcher Sarah Gervais said. “However, attractiveness may also be a liability, because while evaluating them positively, ‘gazers’ still focus less on individuating and personalizing features, such as faces, and more on the bodies of attractive women.”

Oglng itself is of course a noticeable activity and generally frowned upon -

Not "large" Big RR - "full" and "larger".

It's the tongue, the tongue, the tongue on a woman that spoils the job for me.

dgs49 wrote:Then we have Miley Cyrus: ugly face, no boobs, bad hair; No thanks.

"...the tongue, the tongue, the tongue..." also too.

dgs49 wrote:
The article above says that other women "objectify" women with good figures; it conspicuously does not say that they react to them more favorably. Read anything into this?

The research, out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and published in the Springer-published journal Sex Roles, essentially corroborates the belief that people tend to focus more on the breasts and figure of a woman when analyzing her appearance than they do on her face.

Oh I know these days there’s a fashion amongst a certain kind of woman to declare that physical beauty is entirely the wrong standard to use in judging the worth of a person. I dare say they may be right in some circumstances – I’d rather have a Susan Talbot standing betwixt me and flying bullets than I would an Annette Mandeville for example – and I’ve never been one to hold additional weight against a woman. In fact, there’s times when a little extra weight provides a useful hold. But you could make the same argument about landscapes and I have.

Show me a woman, I cry, who given the choice between a picnic on a gentle green hillside; beflowered in Spring and all ruffled by a gentle warm breeze; overlooking a joyous waterfall, cascading into a sparkling pool where birds and fishes disport themselves in the dappled sunlight – given that choice, I say, which of them will insist instead upon spreading their blanket on a Welsh coal tip in order to admire the runnels of filthy water dribbling down through the detritus of industry, no matter how valuable mining may be? I exempt Welsh women from this for they are accustomed to it. Show me a man, if he be a man, who’d enter an elephant in the Derby rather than a horse. Show me! I shout it as they hustle me from the club and show me the door. If this trend continues, they’ll end up barring me and letting women join instead. Mind you, I’m not against equality – not entirely anyway. The sooner women get the vote the better – all the horse-faced, overweight, under endowed creatures will get into Parliament where they can do the least harm to anything that matters. You’ll see if I’m not right. Thank God I won’t.