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Turning the Left Cheek

Nature volume 243, pages 271–272 (1973)Cite this article

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This article explores the fact that portrait painters have tended to paint the left cheek rather than the right one.

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  1. I. C. MCMANUS

    Present address: The Medical School, University of Birmingham,

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  1. Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley, Cambridge, CB3 8AA

    I. C. MCMANUS & N. K. HUMPHREY

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MCMANUS, I., HUMPHREY, N. Turning the Left Cheek. Nature 243, 271–272 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243271a0

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