Digit ratio (2D:4D) and sex-role orientation: Further evidence and meta-analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 417-422

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Pietschnig, Jakob ^a   Nader, Ingo W ^a   Stieger, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Digit ratio (2D:4D); Femininity; Masculinity; Meta analysis; Prenatal testosterone; Sex differences; Sex roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959361046     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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