Gender Roles and Pressure to be Truthful: The Bogus Pipeline Modifies Gender Differences in Sexual but Not Non-sexual Behavior

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 401-414

  Fisher, Terri D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bogus pipeline; Gender differences; Gender roles; Sex roles; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874946018     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-013-0266-3     Document Type: Article

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