Trait Impressions as Overgeneralized Responses to Adaptively Significant Facial Qualities: Evidence from Connectionist Modeling

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  2003

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2003-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0703_01PMID 12788687
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