"Just another pretty face": A multidimensional scaling approach to face attractiveness and variability

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 368-372

  Potter, Timothy ^a   Corneille, Olivier ^a   Ruys, Kirsten I ^a   Rhodes, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 34547496842     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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