The volume-height index as a body attractiveness index

The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-45

  Fan, Jintu ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596887     Document Type: Chapter

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