When accuracy hurts: Reactions of anxious-ambivalent dating partners to a relationship-threatening situation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 754-769

  Simpson, Jeffry A ^a   Ickes, William ^b   Grich, Jami ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0000408878     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.5.754     Document Type: Article

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