Specially motivated, feminine, or just female: Do women have an empathic accuracy advantage?

Managing Interpersonal Sensitivity: Knowing When - and When Not - To Understand Others

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-74

  Hodges, Sara D ^a   Laurent, Sean M ^a   Lewis, Karyn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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