Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 973-984

  Little, Anthony C ^a   Burt, D Michael ^b   Perrett, David I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Facial characteristics; Partner similarity; Personality attribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 30944434418     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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