Children's gender-emotion stereotypes in the relationship of anger to sadness and fear

Sex Roles

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 358-370

  Parmley, Maria ^a   Cunningham, Joseph G ^b  

^a ASSUMPTION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional states; Emotions; Human sex differences; Social perception; Stereotyped attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549147615     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9335-9     Document Type: Article

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