Hot or not? Thermal reactions to social contact

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 864-867

  Hahn, Amanda C ^a   Whitehead, Ross D ^a   Albrecht, Marion ^a   Lefevre, Carmen E ^a   Perrett, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Face; Sex difference; Thermal signature

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BODY TEMPERATURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN;

EID: 84866642106     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0338     Document Type: Article

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