How reward and emotional stimuli induce different reactions across the menstrual cycle

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Sakaki, Michiko ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84855311856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00415.x     Document Type: Review

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