Cross-cultural differences in preferences for specific male and female body shapes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 635-648

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Nordling, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032186483     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00076-2     Document Type: Article

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