Facial symmetry and the 'big-five' personality factors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 523-529

  Fink, Bernhard ^a,d   Neave, Nick ^b   Manning, John T ^c   Grammer, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big five; Face; Health; Personality; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844433182     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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