Gender differences in the relationship between spearman's "g" factor and a measure of executive cognitive function

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 152-160

  Assaad, Jean Marc ^a,b   Pihl, Robert O ^b   Vitaro, Frank ^a   Tremblay, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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