Status and mating success amongst visual artists

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Clegg, Helen ^a   Nettle, Daniel ^b   Miell, Dorothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artist; Creativity; Evolutionary psychology; Mating success; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867122314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00310     Document Type: Article

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