Hair Whorl Direction and Sexual Orientation in Human Males

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 252-256

  Rahman, Qazi ^a   Clarke, Kenneth ^b   Morera, Tirma ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

developmental neurobiology; fraternal birth order; hair whorls; prenatal androgen theory; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR WHORL; HANDEDNESS; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALP HAIR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SIBLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALP; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249095517     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014816     Document Type: Article

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