The relative influence of facial neoteny and waist-to-hip ratio on judgements of female attractiveness and fecundity

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-141

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Reeves, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Face; Fecundity; Neotony; WHR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACIES; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENETICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEOTENY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; FACE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33745713359     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500500155982     Document Type: Article

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