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Research Paper

Age preferences for advertisement models differ by their gender / Las preferencias de edad de los modelos publicitarios varían en función del sexo del modelo

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Pages 37-68 | Received 16 Oct 2018, Accepted 16 Oct 2019, Published online: 03 Dec 2019

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