Suicide rates, national intelligence estimates, and differential K theory

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 733-736

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

BIRTH RATE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUICIDE;

EID: 77949603300     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.109.3.733-736     Document Type: Article

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