Body Shape Preferences: Associations with Rater Body Shape and Sociosexuality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Price, Michael E ^a   Pound, Nicholas ^a   Dunn, James ^a   Hopkins, Sian ^a   Kang, Jinsheng ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PREDICTION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUME HEIGHT INDEX; WAIST CHEST RATIO; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEAUTY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871802995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052532     Document Type: Article

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