Are children's faces really more appealing than those of adults? Testing the baby schema hypothesis beyond infancy.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

• Publication date

  2011-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.002PMID 21536307PMCID PMC3105163
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