Judgments toward women wearing high heels: a forced-choice evaluation

Fashion and Textiles

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Guéguen, Nicolas ^a   Stefan, Jordy ^a   Renault, Quentin ^a  

^a NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Heels; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026556332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21980802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40691-016-0058-9     Document Type: Article

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