Is love really so blind?

Psychologist

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-111

  Swami, Viren ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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