Gender differences in the motivational processing of babies are determined by their facial attractiveness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Yamamoto, Rinah ^a   Ariely, Dan ^b   Chi, Woh ^a   Langleben, Daniel D ^c   Elman, Igor ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ESTHETICS; FACE; INFANT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ADULT; BEAUTY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650302268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006042     Document Type: Article

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