Rivals in the mind's eye: Jealous responses after subliminal exposure to body shapes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-134

  Massar, Karlijn ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Jealousy; Rivals; Shoulder to hip ratio; Subliminal priming; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649121894     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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