Facial beauty and the late positive component of event-related potentials.
A study was conducted to examine the effects of non-average female facial features and proportions on men's behavioral and electrophysiological responses. Data were drawn from 25 males whose event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while viewing randomly presented male and female computer-gene...
| Published in: | Journal of Sex Research Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 188 - 199 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997
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