Men's attractiveness predicts their preference for female facial femininity when judging for short-term, but not long-term, partners

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 542-546

  Burriss, Robert P ^a,b   Welling, Lisa L M ^a   Puts, David A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Face; Masculinity; Mate choice; Mate value

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551614170     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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