Judging a book by its cover: Jealousy after subliminal priming with attractive and unattractive faces

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 634-638

  Massar, Karlijn ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Facial attractiveness; Jealousy; Rivals; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955055696     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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