Fruit over sunbed: Carotenoid skin colouration is found more attractive than melanin colouration

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

• Publication date

  2015-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/17470218.2014.944194PMID 25014019
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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