Fingerprint asymmetry predicts within sex differences in the performance of sexually dimorphic tasks

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1181-1191

  Sanders, Geoff ^a   Waters, Flavie ^a,b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognative tasks; Dermal ridge asymmetry; Gonadal hormones; Human fingerprints; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511503     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00216-6     Document Type: Article

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