Instrumental or expressive?: Heterosexual men's expectations of women in two contexts

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 565-574

  Smiler, Andrew P ^a   Kubotera, Natsuki ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Dating; Egalitarianism sexism; Gender traits; Individual differences; Romantic relationships; Vocational setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954829905     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X09337112     Document Type: Article

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