Social skills of older people: Conversations in same- and mixed-age dyads

Discourse Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-76

  Vandeputte, Dixie D ^a   Kemper, Susan ^a   Hummert, Mary Lee ^a   Kemtes, Karen A ^a   Shaner, Jaye ^a   Segrin, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0007488943     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638539909545050     Document Type: Article

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