Youths' attributions for power-related gender differences: Nature, nurture, or God?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1185-1202

  Neff, Kristin D ^a   Terry Schmitt, Lisa N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differentiation; Gender traits; Youth attributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036554104     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00094-1     Document Type: Article

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