Using virtual reality to reduce volunteers’ heights, Oxford University researchers found they were more likely to think other people were staring at them or talking about them on a computer-generated train. Professor Daniel Freeman said, “We know people behave in VR as they do in real life.” But what else does your height say about you? Today we check the evidence.
1. Longer lives
Studies show that shorter people live longer. Recent research
analysing the lives of 500 males born between 1866-1915 on the Italian
island of Sardinia showed those below 5ft 4in lived an average two years
longer than taller men. The study suggested the reasons included lower
DNA damage, greater cell replacement potential and greater efficiency of
heart-pumping. Other studies show shorter women live longer too.
2. Intelligence
Taller people are likely to be more intelligent, according to
several studies. Research in 2006 at Princeton University found “as
early as three… taller children perform significantly better in
cognitive tests”. Last year a team at the University of Colorado found
that the link between height and intelligence was down to breeding. They
showed that clever people are likely to choose taller people as
partners — and vice versa.
3. Money
Researchers at the University of Sydney compared the wage packets
of 20,000 people using indicators including weight and height, and found
increased height translated into more cash on average.
4. Ambition
Shorter women are less ambitious, say academics at St Andrews and
Stirling universities. They found they are more likely to start a family
than focus on their career. Clinical psychologist Dr Miriam Law Smith
said: “Men across are taller than women and height must therefore be an
indicator of greater physical masculinity. The physiology of the body
controls the psychology of the mind.”
5. Better life partners
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