Why beautiful people are more intelligent

Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-243

  Kanazawa, Satoshi ^a   Kovar, Jody L ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Intelligence; Physical attractiveness; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTELLIGENCE; LOGIC; MALE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 3042616460     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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