Female sexual orientation is perceived accurately, rapidly, and automatically from the face and its features

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1245-1251

  Rule, Nicholas O ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^a   Hallett, Katherine C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Automatic processing; Person perception; Sexual orientation; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350335380     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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