A study conducted by psychologists Viren Swami and Martin Tovee showed that rich men love women with smaller busts, while poor men prefer bigger ones.
For their first experiment, they recruited 266 men from Malaysia that varied in three different socio-economic statuses.
Each of the men were shown animated female figures with varying chest sizes, which they rated out of 5 for their physical attractiveness.
And the results showed that the men with a lower socio-economic status preferred the larger busts while those with a higher economic status leaned towards the smaller ones.
In the second experiment, they compared those ratings to reflect upon the evolutionary perspective of bust size, which is a woman’s ability to bear and nurture a child – they based it on a full stomach.
In order to determine whether food security had an impact on participants’ choices, 66 hungry male university students and 55 satisfied participants were recruited. Participants were either entering or exiting the campus cafeteria between the hours of 6 and 7 p.m.
The participants were shown 5 women with different bust sizes, and the hungry ones preferred the women with bigger busts over the men who were full.