Instrumentality and lifetime number of sexual partners

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 747-756

  Fink, Bernhard ^a   Brewer, Gayle ^b   Fehl, Katrin ^a   Neave, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expressiveness; Humans; Instrumentality; Personality; Sex partners

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250713951     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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