Evolutionary personality psychology and victimology. Sex differences in risk attitudes and short-term orientation and their relation to sex differences in victimizations

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 233-244

  Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,c   Rohde, Percy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c Department of Social and Organizational Psychology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Risk attitudes; Risk taking; Sex differences; Short term orientation; Victimizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036294619     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(01)00104-0     Document Type: Article

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