Eye-tracking women's preferences for men's somatotypes

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 73-79

  Dixson, Barnaby J ^a   Grimshaw, Gina M ^b   Ormsby, Diane K ^b   Dixson, Alan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Human attractiveness; Male bodies; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MESOMORPHA;

EID: 84893750730     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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