Sexual dimorphism and personality attributions of male faces

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1137-1143

  Pivonkova, Vera ^a   Rubesova, Anna ^a   Lindova, Jitka ^a   Havlicek, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dominance; Facial morphology; Masculinity; Personality judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MASCULINITY; PERSONALITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BEAUTY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASCULINITY; PERSONALITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82355175920     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9821-6     Document Type: Article

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