The family of fundamental social categories includes kinship: Evidence from the memory confusion paradigm

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 998-1012

  Lieberman, Debra ^a,c   Oum, Robert ^a   Kurzban, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

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EID: 54949099246     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.528     Document Type: Article

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