Managing emotional manhood: Fighting and fostering fear in mixed martial arts

Social Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-437

  Vaccaro, Christian A ^a   Schrock, Douglas P ^b   McCabe, Janice M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; gender; identity; manhood; masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555189263     PISSN: 01902725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0190272511415554     Document Type: Article

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