The effects of attractiveness and underlying components on the motivational salience and the memorability of face photographs

Facial attractiveness is a particularly salient social cue that influences many important social outcomes. Using a standard key-press task to measure motivational salience of faces and an old/new memory task to measure memory for face photographs, this thesis investigated both within-woman and betwe...

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Main Author: Wang, Hongyi
Published: University of Glasgow 2017
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702358