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Twenty college students were asked to rate and then rank a set of nine line drawings of a woman’s face in which three mouth angles by three pupil diameters had been varied. For these stimuli, the facial feature variations that determined affective attributions were the mouth angles. These data are thought to be instructive in the sense that they clearly indicate the need to covary important facial features when assessing the role of a facial feature, such as pupil size, in nonverbal communication.
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Mcafee, L.J., Fox, R.A. & Hicks, R.A. Attributions of male college students to variations in facial features in the line drawing of a woman’s face. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 19, 143–144 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330213
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