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SUBMITTER: Gaetano J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3946328 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaetano Justin J van der Zwan Rick R Blair Duncan D Brooks Anna A
PloS one 20140306 3
Sex perceptions, or more particularly, sex discriminations and sex categorisations, are high-value social behaviours. They mediate almost all inter-personal interactions. The two experiments reported here had the aim of exploring some of the basic characteristics of the processes giving rise to sex perceptions. Experiment 1 confirmed that human hands can be used as a cue to an individual's sex even when colour and texture cues are removed and presentations are brief. Experiment 1 also showed tha ...[more]