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Article: Rating and recognition of peers' personal odors by 9-year-old children: an exploratory study.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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During the last two decades, children's relationships with their peers have attracted increasing interest from developmental psychologists using sociometric, observational, and social-cognitive approaches (for a review, see Berndt & Ladd, 1989). Nevertheless, the role of physical characteristics in peer relationships has been generally neglected, except in studies of visual attractiveness.
For example, Perkins and Lerner (1995) reported that early adolescents' facial and full-body attractiveness predicted their self-perceived social acceptance and their positive nominations by peers. Such findings shed light on the impact of children's physical characteristics on ...