Correlated male preferences for femininity in female faces and voices

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-461

  Fraccaro, Paul J ^a   Feinberg, David R ^b   DeBruine, Lisa M ^a   Little, Anthony C ^c   Watkins, Christopher D ^a   Jones, Benedict C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face attractiveness; Mate preference; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection; Voice attractiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955721472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491000800311     Document Type: Article

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