Same-sex gaze attraction influences mate-choice copying in humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Yorzinski, Jessica L ^a,b   Platt, Michael L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESTHETICS; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEAUTY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949400741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009115     Document Type: Article

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