Aesthetic and Incentive Salience of Cute Infant Faces: Studies of Observer Sex, Oral Contraception and Menstrual Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sprengelmeyer, Reiner ^a   Lewis, Jennifer ^a   Hahn, Amanda ^a   Perrett, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEAUTY; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JUDGMENT; LEVONORGESTREL; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878469693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065844     Document Type: Article

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