Towards understanding peer conflict

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 76-102

  Laursen, Brett ^a   Hartup, Willard W ^b   Koplas, Ann L ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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