Exploring the perception of social characteristics in faces using the isolation effect

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 213-247

  Santos, Isabel M ^a   Young, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACIES; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPY; TRUST; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 14844346484     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000102     Document Type: Article

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