Psychomorphospace—From Biology to Perception, and Back: Towards an Integrated Quantification of Facial Form Variation

Biological Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-106

  Schaefer, Katrin ^a   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Fink, Bernhard ^b   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

2D:4D; anthropometrics; attractiveness; Darwinian aesthetics; evolutionary psychology; facial shape; geometric morphometrics; masculinity; thin plate spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053922541     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2009.4.1.98     Document Type: Article

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