Hooking up: Gender differences, evolution, and pluralistic ignorance

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 390-404

  Reiber, Chris ^a   Garcia, Justin R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gender differences; Hook up; Hooking up; Pluralistic ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955745718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491000800307     Document Type: Article

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