Person perception through gait information and target choice for sexual advances: Comparison of likely targets in experiments and real life

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 63-85

  Sakaguchi, Kikue ^a,b   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gait; Kinematic information; Person perception; Point light display; Sexual advance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746591166     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-006-0006-2     Document Type: Article

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