Beauty against tobacco control: Viewing photos of attractive women may induce a mating mindset, leading to reduced self-control over smoking among male smokers

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 218-223

  Chiou, Wen Bin ^a   Wu, Wen Hsiung ^b   Cheng, Ying Yao ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Facial attractiveness; Mating motivation; Smoking; Temporal discounting; Tobacco control

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84927910066     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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