Being Narrow While Being Broad: The Importance of Construct Specificity and Theoretical Generality

Sex Roles

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 167-174

  Lane, Kristin A ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Gender; Mathematics attitudes; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856528961     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-0077-3     Document Type: Article

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