Methodological issues in studies of female attractiveness

The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 46-62

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Cornelissen, Piers L ^b   Tovée, Martin J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596887     Document Type: Chapter

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