Gender Effects in Information Processing on a Nonverbal Decoding Task

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-107

  Schmid, Petra C ^a   Mast, Marianne Schmid ^a   Bombari, Dario ^b   Mast, Fred W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gender; Information processing; Nonverbal decoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958825293     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9979-3     Document Type: Article

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