Situational Malleability of Gender Schema: The Case of the Competitive Sport Context

Sex Roles

Volumn 64, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 426-439

  Clément Guillotin, Corentin ^a   Fontayne, Paul ^b  

^a Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^b Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis   (France)

Author keywords

Competitive sport; Femininity; Gender schema; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951774766     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9912-1     Document Type: Article

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