Sex Differences in Attraction to Familiar and Unfamiliar Opposite-Sex Faces: Men Prefer Novelty and Women Prefer Familiarity

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Archives of Sexual Behavior

• Publication date

  2013-06-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s10508-013-0120-2PMID 23740467
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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