Exploring normative creativity: Testing the relationship between cognitive flexibility and sexual identity

Sex Roles

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 249-253

  Konik, Julie ^a   Crawford, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

bisexuality; cognitive flexibility; homosexuality; sexual identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444360868     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SERS.0000037885.22789.83     Document Type: Article

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