A look at how we look at others: Orientation inversion and photographic negation disrupt the perception of human bodies

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-468

  Cook, Richard ^a   Duchaine, Bradley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bodies; Faces; Inversion; Negation; Physical attractiveness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 79957593440     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.541892     Document Type: Article

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