The hotness factor

About a month ago I had said that our society has equated thinness with health and that perhaps we have done that because we equate thinness with sex appeal. I used that as a comment on another blog and the response was essentially, well, duh! In addition, I was told, what we consider appealingly sexy is culturally conditioned, and driven by the Diet Industry and Fashion Industry. And here comes a study that shows just that. Participants were asked to rate the "hotness" of people in a series of photographs. The results changed when participants were first told how others rated the same photos.