Research across various cultures has shown at length how important physical features, such as body size and the style and color of a woman\u2019s clothing, influence a man\u2019s behavior towards and judgment of a woman. Even though a link between high-heeled shoes and sexiness is implied by the many models wearing such shoes in magazines and adult films, only one previous study has tested the effect of women\u2019s shoe heels on men\u2019s judgment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Gu\u00e9guen therefore set out to conduct field experiments to test the influence of different shoe styles on men\u2019s helping behavior. He watched what happened when a woman in flat shoes asked people to complete a survey, and whether or not they complied more readily when she was wearing high heels. He also tested whether or not people\u2019s spontaneous urge to help changed when the same woman \u2013 again wearing shoes with different heel sizes \u2013 dropped a glove. The findings show that men\u2019s helpfulness increased along with the height of the heels a woman was wearing. However, heel height had no influence on other women\u2019s willingness to help<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the final experiment, Gu\u00e9guen found that men in a bar were quicker to start chatting with a woman wearing heels than when she was wearing flat shoes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen\u2019s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men\u2019s behavior,\u201d summarizes Gu\u00e9guen, who argues that the results of these studies once again reveal how men focus on women\u2019s physical attributes when judging and interacting with members of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n He believes that more research must be done to examine whether this effect depends on a woman\u2019s shoe heel size and on any change of gait due to wearing high heels. He speculates that, because sexy female models often wear such shoes in the media, men have started to associate the wearers of high-heeled shoes with those having sexual intent<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reference: Gu\u00e9guen, N. (2014). High Heels Increase Women\u2019s Attractiveness. Archives of Sexual Behavior<\/em>. DOI 10.1007\/s10508-014-0422-z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Springer media release: If it\u2019s help a woman needs, maybe she should wear high heels. That\u2019s the message from Nicolas Gu\u00e9guen of the Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne-Sud in France,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,339,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17382,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions\/17382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"smell](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/smell-scent.jpg\")
<\/a>If it\u2019s help a woman needs, maybe she should wear high heels<\/strong>.
\nThat\u2019s the message from Nicolas Gu\u00e9guen of the Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne-Sud in France, after he observed how helpful men are towards women in high heels versus those wearing flat, sensible shoes. The study, published in Springer\u2019s journal Archives of Sexual Behavior<\/em>, is the first ever to investigate how the height of a woman\u2019s shoe heel influences how men behave towards her.<\/p>\n