Deciphering faces: Quantifiable visual cues to weight

Perception

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-61

  Coetzee, Vinet ^a   Chen, Jingying ^a   Perrett, David I ^a   Stephen, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 76549111379     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p6560     Document Type: Article

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