Attractiveness of own-race, other-race, and mixed-race faces

Perception

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-340

  Rhodes, Gillian ^a,b   Lee, Kieran ^a,b   Palermo, Romina ^a   Weiss, Mahi ^a   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^b,c   Clissa, Peter ^a   Williams, Tamsyn ^a   Peters, Marianne ^a   Winkler, Chris ^a   Jeffery, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 18744400302     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p5191     Document Type: Article

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