A preliminary investigation of the associations between digit ratio and women's perception of men's dance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 381-390

  Fink, Bernhard ^a   Seydel, Hanna ^a   Manning, John T ^b   Kappeler, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D:4D; Dance; Digit ratio; Hormones; Humans

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751163046     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.07.019     Document Type: Article

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