The influence of age of the face and the waist to hip ratio on judgements of female attractiveness and traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1171-1185

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Mistry, Disha ^a   McClelland, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of face; Attractiveness; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306508     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00209-5     Document Type: Article

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