Hitchhiking women's hair color

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 941-948

  Guéguen, Nicolas ^a   Lamy, Lubomir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BEAUTY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HAIR COLOR; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949577319     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.109.3.941-948     Document Type: Article

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