Biological sex determines whether faces look real

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 766-788

  Balas, Benjamin ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Face perception; Sex categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; STIMULUS;

EID: 84887111756     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.823138     Document Type: Article

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