Muscularity and attractiveness as predictors of human egalitarianism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 636-640

  Price, Michael E ^a   Kang, Jinsheng ^a   Dunn, James ^a   Hopkins, Sian ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Egalitarianism; Equality; Evolutionary psychology; Muscularity; Social dominance orientation; Social value orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551596192     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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