Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country

Mercedes Sheen; Hajar Aman Key Yekani; Timothy R. Jordan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0199537

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Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country

Mercedes Sheen,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
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Hajar Aman Key Yekani,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
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Timothy R. Jordan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ProfTimJordan@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Northern Cyprus

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9037-5820

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Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country

Mercedes Sheen,
Hajar Aman Key Yekani,
Timothy R. Jordan

Published: October 5, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199537

About the Authors

Mercedes Sheen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE

Hajar Aman Key Yekani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE

Timothy R. Jordan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ProfTimJordan@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Northern Cyprus

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9037-5820

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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