The blue-eyes stereotype: Do eye color, pupil diameter, and scleral color affect attractiveness?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-240

  Gründl, Martin ^a   Knoll, Sebastian ^a   Eisenmann Klein, Marita ^a   Prantl, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Eye color; Perceived age; Pupil diameter; Scleral color

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PUPIL; SCLERA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEAUTY; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PUPIL; SCLERA; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863718404     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-011-9793-x     Document Type: Article

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