Lack of correlation between digit ratio (2D:4D) and Baron-Cohen's "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test, empathy, systemising, and autism-spectrum quotients in a general population sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1481-1491

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Dressler, Stefan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autism phenotype; Digit ratio (2D:4D); Empathising; Prenatal testosterone; Sex differences; Systemising

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748687179     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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