Facial resemblance increases the attractiveness of same–sex faces more than other–sex faces

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2004-10-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2004.2824PMID 15451700PMCID PMC1691833
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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