Physique and perceptions of personality
I've been thinking for a while about the connection between morphology, behavior, and personality (although not in humans). The flip side of this is how we use morphology to make inferences about personality.
Mankar et al. asked people to look at drawings of male bodies and assign personality characteristics to them: "Based on common choices, the 30 traits could be clustered into distinct ‘personalities’ which were strongly associated with particular body forms. A centrally obese figure was perceived as 'lethargic, greedy, political, money-minded, selfish and rich.'"
This is the type of study where I would like to see some comparisons with populations where foraging budgets are different.
Mankar et al. Obesity as a Perceived Social Signal. PLoS ONE (2008) vol. 3 (9) pp. e3187
