Stereotype directionality and attractiveness stereotyping: Is beauty good or is ugly bad?

Social Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-206

  Griffin, Angela M ^a   Langlois, Judith H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 33646490151     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: 0278016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2006.24.2.187     Document Type: Article

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