Reactions to children's faces: Males are more affected by resemblance than females are, and so are their brains

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 394-405

  Platek, Steven M ^a,b   Raines, Danielle M ^a   Gallup Jr , Gordon G ^c   Mohamed, Feroze B ^d   Thomson, Jaime W ^a   Myers, Thomas E ^a   Panyavin, Ivan S ^a   Levin, Sarah L ^a   Davis, Jennifer A ^c   Fonteyn, Ludivine C M ^a   Arigo, Danielle R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary cognitive neuro science; Facial resemblance; fMRI; Paternal investment; Paternal resemblance; Paternity; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 20944435101     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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