A facial attractiveness account of gender asymmetries in interracial marriage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lewis, Michael B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRODUCTIVITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; FACE; HUMAN RELATION; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; RACE; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856808102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031703     Document Type: Article

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