Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-235

  Park, Justin H ^a   Schaller, Mark ^b   Van Vugt, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

incest avoidance; kin recognition; nepotism; person perception; signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049151842     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.12.3.215     Document Type: Article

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