The motivational salience of infant faces is similar for men and women.

Infant facial features are thought to be powerful elicitors of caregiving behaviour. It has been widely assumed that men and women respond in different ways to those features, such as a large forehead and eyes and round protruding cheeks, colloquially described as 'cute'. We investigated e...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Christine E Parsons, Katherine S Young, Nina Kumari, Alan Stein, Morten L Kringelbach
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020632&type=printable

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