Have you got the look? gaze direction affects judgements of facial attractiveness

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 321-330

  Ewing, Louise ^a   Rhodes, Gillian ^a   Pellicano, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Eye gaze direction; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EYE DOMINANCE; FACE DEVELOPMENT; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77951169273     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280902965599     Document Type: Article

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