Individual differences in developmental plasticity may result from stochastic sampling

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 336-347

  Frankenhuis, Willem E ^a   Panchanathan, Karthik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Differential susceptibility; Fetal programming; Phenotypic plasticity; Stochastic sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051828152     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691611412602     Document Type: Article

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