Personality, marital satisfaction, and probability of marital infidelity

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-25

  Shackelford, Todd K ^a   Besser, Avi ^b   Goetz, Aaron T ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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