Adaptation reinforces preferences for correlates of attractive facial cues

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 849-858

  Jones, Benedict C ^a   Debruine, Lisa M ^a   Little, Anthony C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CALIBRATION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EXPERIENCE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 53249119615     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280701760811     Document Type: Article

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