Women's visual attention to variation in men's dance quality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 236-240

  Weege, Bettina ^a   Lange, Benjamin P ^a   Fink, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Body movement; Dance; Eye tracking; Masculinity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861652831     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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