Psychologists Viren Swami and Martin Tovée conducted a study which explored whether men’s access to resources would influence their inclinations for breast size in women.
Unknown to many, there has always been the question of whether men prefer bigger breasted women, or women with a smaller chest. And as it turns out, it all comes down to how rich they are.
Studies dating back several years have finally shed some light on the question, pointing out some astonishing factors.
Swami and Tovee carried out two experimentations in which they tested whether men who lack material acquisitions would find larger breasts more desirable than men who do have material acquisitions
For the first experiment, they explored the connection between financial security and men’s preferences in breast size. They enlisted 266 men from three parts of Malaysia that varied in socioeconomic status – low, medium and high.
Each participant was shown animated female figures, each varying in breast size. They then rated them out of five for physical attraction. And it turned out, men with a lower socioeconomic status found larger breasts more pleasing than those with a higher socio-economic status.
They then compared breast size ratings in a second experiment which showed upon the evolutionary perspective of breast size – being that it is a signal of a woman’s ability to bear and nurture a child. But this time, they did it based on a full stomach.
They used 66 hungry male university students, and 55 with satisfied appetites to test whether the security of food had an effect on their preferences, participating as they either entered or exited their campus cafeteria between 6pm and 7pm.
They also only used white males for this study, as ethnicity is known to influence breast size preferences.
Again, they were shown five women with varying sized breasts. And the hungry males loved the bigger breasted women more than the gratified men.