Digit ratio: A pointer to fertility, behavior, and health

By S. M. Breedlove. 2003

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Karl Grammer
2. J. Manning
3. Susan M. Barnett
4. B. Fink
5. S. Ceci
6. Nick Neave
7. G. Gudjonsson

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Karl Grammer
2. J. Manning
3. B. Fink
4. Nick Neave
5. Randi A. Engle
6. P. Agarwal
7. Amy B. Ellis
8. Robert L. Goldstone

Citations in the corpus

• Second to fourth digit ratio and facial asymmetry (2004, background): “…correlate of testosterone and a negative correlate of oestrogen) is negatively related to the 2D:4D ratio, and (3) sex-dependent traits that express early embryonic development, such as handedness, autism, and Asperger’s syndrome, are correlated with 2D:4D (see Manning, 2002, for a review).”
• Women's underrepresentation in science: sociocultural and biological considerations. (2009, background): “The digit ratio is a marker for prenatal testosterone for the fourth finger and estrogen for the second finger (Manning, 2002; Sanders, Bereczkei, Csatho, & Manning, 2005); in gay men and women, the second finger is typically shorter than the fourth (McFadden et al., 2005; T. J. Williams et al.,…”