African Perceptions of Female Attractiveness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Coetzee, Vinet ^a   Faerber, Stella J ^b   Greeff, Jaco M ^a   Lefevre, Carmen E ^c   Re, Daniel E ^c   Perrett, David I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY COMPOSITION; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; ETHNIC GROUP; FACE; FACIAL ADIPOSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN HOMOGENEITY; YOUTHFULNESS;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; BEAUTY; COLOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868122224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048116     Document Type: Article

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