The eyes test as a measure of individual differences: How much of the variance reflects verbal IQ?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Peterson, Eric ^a   Miller, Stephanie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Mentalizing; RMET; Social perception; Theory of mind; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867060690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00220     Document Type: Article

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