Interpersonal metaperception: The importance of compatibility in the aesthetic appreciation of bodily cues

The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-184

  Johnson, Kerri L ^a   Tassinary, Louis G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596887     Document Type: Chapter

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