Democrats and Republicans can be differentiated from their faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rule, Nicholas O ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; UNITED STATES; FACIES; MALE; VISION;

FACIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649276370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008733     Document Type: Article

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