Is long-term love more than a rare phenomenon? if so, what are its correlates?

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-249

  O'Leary, K Daniel ^a   Acevedo, Bianca P ^a   Aron, Arthur ^a   Huddy, Leonie ^a   Mashek, Debra ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

culture and cognition; impression formation; person perception; social cognition; social judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856471250     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611417015     Document Type: Article

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