Gender differences in erotic plasticity - Evolutionary or sociocultural forces? Comment on Baumeister (2000)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 375-379

  Hyde, Janet Shibley ^a   Durik, Amanda M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LIBIDO; MALE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

ANIMALS; EROTICA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LIBIDO; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0039923152     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.126.3.375     Document Type: Review

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