Learning and unlearning the myths we are taught: Gender and social dominance orientation

Sex Roles

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 743-757

  Foels, Rob ^a,b   Pappas, Christopher J ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist; Gender; Mediation; Sex; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843108850     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:sers.0000029094.25107.d6     Document Type: Article

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