Getting to know your neighbors: Incorporating evolutionary psychology into urban research-policy collaborations

Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-343

  O'Brien, Daniel Tumminelli ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied evolutionary psychology; Research policy collaborations; Translational research; Urban studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874170316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19335377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0099248     Document Type: Article

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