Gender Differences in the Motivational Processing of Babies Are Determined by Their Facial Attractiveness

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Rinah Yamamoto,

Affiliation Clinical Psychopathology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Dan Ariely,

Affiliation Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Won Chi,

Affiliation Clinical Psychopathology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Daniel D. Langleben,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Igor Elman

* E-mail: ielman@partners.org

Affiliation Clinical Psychopathology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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All images were culled from copy write free Internet resources (e.g., http://homepage.powerup.com/au/~cleftpal/photogallery.htm and http://www.kidsandbibs.com/photogallery/index.php).
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This anonymous sourcing of the stimuli precluded access to and control for the chronological age of the babies [9], from which the portraits were obtained.

No competing interests declared.

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