The gender difference in gaze-cueing: Associations with empathizing and systemizing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 729-732

  Alwall, N ^a   Johansson, D ^a   Hansen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Empathy Quotient; Gaze cueing; Gender; Systemizing Quotient

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955927081     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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