Gender and relationships: Influences on agentic and communal behaviors

Personal Relationships

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-60

  Suh, Eun Jung ^a   Moskowitz, D S ^b   Fournier, Marc A ^b   Zuroff, David C ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 1542380962     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2004.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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