Robust association between sociosexuality and self-monitoring in heterosexual and non-heterosexual Japanese

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 815-825

  Sakaguchi, Kikue ^a   Sakai, Yoshiko ^b   Ueda, Keisuke ^b   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Prenatal androgen exposure; Self monitoring; Sexual orientation; Sociosexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250736970     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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