The happy American body: A survey report

Abstract

From over 62,000 who responded to a 109-item questionnaire about the body, 2,000 respondents were randomly chosen in a way that matched national distributions for sex and age. Readers of Psychology Today were mostly satisfied with their bodies and faces. Other results include the points that (a) the respondents believed that attractive people obtain more happiness, sex, and respect than less attractive people; and (b) marriages in which the partners were mismatched on attractiveness seemed less stable than those in which the partners were about equal.