Friendship and gender differences in task and social interpretations of peer collaborative problem solving

Social Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-22

  Strough, JoNell ^a   Berg, Cynthia A ^b   Meegan, Sean P ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Friendship; Gender; Peer collaboration; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035658503     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00145     Document Type: Article

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