Undoing androcentric explanations of gender differences: Explaining 'the effect to be predicted'

Sex Roles

Volumn 55, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 861-867

  Hegarty, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Androcentrism; Category norm; Explanation; Gender differences; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845619478     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9139-3     Document Type: Article

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