Further evidence that facial cues of dominancemodulate gaze cuing in human observers

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 193-197

  Jones, Benedict C ^a   Main, Julie C ^a   Little, Anthony C ^b   DeBruine, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Dominance; Gaze; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855691188     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185/a000056     Document Type: Article

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