The role of stimulus specificity on infidelity reactions: Seeing is disturbing

Current Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-59

  Landolfi, Joseph F ^a   Geher, Glenn ^a   Andrews, Alice ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional infidelity; Infidelity reactions; Sexual infidelity; Stimulus specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948948206     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-007-9001-y     Document Type: Article

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