Sexual activity is inversely related to women's perceptions of the facial attractiveness of unknown men

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1991-1997

  Hess, Ursula ^a   Brody, Stuart ^b   van der Schalk, Job ^c   Fischer, Agneta H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Person perception; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548822691     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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