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PARIS: Short people should pray for a return to the seventies’
fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how
tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in
the Netherlands and University of Valencia in Spain asked 549 Dutch
and Spanish men and women to rate how jealous they felt, and to list
the qualities in a romantic competitor that were most likely to make
them ill at ease.
Men generally felt most nervous about
attractive, rich and strong rivals.
But these feelings were increasingly relaxed the
taller they were themselves. The more vertically challenged the man,
the greater his feelings of jealousy.
For women, what counted most in jealousy was the
rival’s looks and charm, but these feelings were less intense if
the woman herself was of average height.
Taller men are most successful with women, and
women of medium height enjoy the best health, fertility and
popularity with men.
On the other hand, a woman of average height
could in certain circumstances fall afoul of the green-eyed monster
if their rival were taller.
“Taller women are more dominant and have
greater fighting abilities than shorter women,” says the study,
which appears in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
-- AFP
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