Complementarity theory: Why human social capacities evolved to require cultural complements

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 76-94

  Fiske, Alan Page ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0034338813     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0401_7     Document Type: Article

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