Human's cognitive ability to assess facial cues from photographs: A study of sexual selection in the Bolivian Amazon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Undurraga, Eduardo A ^a   Eisenberg, Dan T A ^b   Magvanjav, Oyunbileg ^a   Wang, Ruoxue ^a   Leonard, William R ^b   McDade, Thomas W ^b   Reyes García, Victoria ^a,c   Nyberg, Colleen ^b   Tanner, Susan ^d   Huanca, Tomás ^e   Godoy, Ricardo A ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e CBIDSI Centro Boliviano de Investigacion y de Desarrollo Socio Integral   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLIVIA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; GENETIC SELECTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOLIVIA; COGNITION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUALITY;

EID: 77956204825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011027     Document Type: Article

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