Male Honor and Female Fidelity: Implicit Cultural Scripts that Perpetuate Domestic Violence

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 997-1010

  Vandello, Joseph A ^a   Cohen, Dov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAZIL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; VIRTUES;

EID: 0141753995     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.5.997     Document Type: Article

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