Gender affects body language reading

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2011, Pages

  Sokolov, Arseny A ^a   Krüger, Samuel ^a   Enck, Paul ^a   Krägeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a   Pavlova, Marina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Gender; Social cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860150031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00016     Document Type: Article

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