Robert Yerkes, Calvin Stone, and the beginning of programmatic sex research by psychologists, 1921-1930

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 603-619

  Pickren, Wade ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1423412     Document Type: Article

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