Cross-Cultural Differences in the Perception of Male and Female Body Shapes as a Function of Exercise

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1037-1053

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Lim, Ann Nee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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