Social pressures for assortative mating

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-164

  Thiessen, Del ^a   Young, Robert K ^a   Delgado, Melinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0031065407     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00181-X     Document Type: Article

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