The face reveals athletic flair: Better National Football League quarterbacks are better looking

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-116

  Williams, Kevin M ^a   Park, Justin H ^b   Wieling, Martijn B ^c  

^a Multi Health Systems Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Athleticism; Facial attractiveness; Heritable fitness; North American football

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149127495     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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