The relevance of people versus objects in explaining females' advantage over males in appearance accuracy

Sex Roles

Volumn 60, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 890-899

  Horgan, Terrence G ^a   McGrath, Marianne P ^a   Long, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance Accuracy; Gender; Objects; People

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349197631     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9596-6     Document Type: Article

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