Male or female? An investigation of factors that modulate the visual perception of another's sex

Social Psychology of Visual Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-122

  Johnston, Lucy ^a   Miles, Lynden ^b   Macrae, C Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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