Relating visual and vocal attractiveness for moving and static faces

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 817-822

  Lander, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attractiveness; face and voice perception; men and women

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATE ATTRACTION; MORPHOLOGY; VISUAL CUE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 39449103988     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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