"Girls don't talk about garages!": Perceptions of conversation in same- and cross-sex friendships

Personal Relationships

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-130

  Martin, Robert ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0031530307     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1997.tb00134.x     Document Type: Article

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