Self-Fulfilling Prophecies as a Link between Men's Facial Width-to-Height Ratio and Behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Haselhuhn, Michael P ^a   Wong, Elaine M ^a   Ormiston, Margaret E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL WIDTH TO HEIGHT RATIO; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY; SELFISH BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883169606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072259     Document Type: Article

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