Sexual economics: Sex as female resource for social exchange in heterosexual interactions

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-363

  Baumeister, Roy F ^a   Vohs, Kathleen D ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 10844228977     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_2     Document Type: Review

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