The stress-affiliation paradigm revisited: Do people prefer the kindness of strangers or their attractiveness?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 382-391

  Li, Norman P ^a   Halterman, Rose A ^b   Cason, Margaret J ^a   Knight, George P ^c   Maner, Jon K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Mating; Sex differences; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148953564     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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