Close relationships and placemaking: Do objects in a couple's home reflect couplehood?

Personal Relationships

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 437-450

  Lohmann, Andrew ^a   Arriaga, Ximena B ^b,c   Goodfriend, Wind ^c  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041917419     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6811.00058     Document Type: Article

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