People underrate their attractiveness, study finds
It took a scientific study to tell us that we're a nation that suffers from low self-esteem?
Men and women see themselves as less appealing than members of the opposite sex do, conclude psychologists Jennifer Siciliani of the University of Missouri and Ryan Pride of St. Louis University.
No matter how buff they might be, men rate themselves as being less muscular than women do. Women perceive themselves as heavier than men see them.
The research is aimed in part at finding out why so many women, and an increasing number of men, have eating disorders. Driven in part by Hollywood portrayals of body types, too many of us have unrealistic expectations about how we should look, the researchers said. "We tend to think the opposite sex wants a much more desirable figure than they actually want," Pride said.
This is comforting information, I suppose; I just hope these conclusions weren't funded by tax dollars....
