Critical reflections on evolutionary psychology and sexual selection theory as explanatory account of emergence of sex differences in psychopathology: Comment on Martel (2013)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1260-1264

  Hankin, Benjamin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critique; Developmental psychopathology; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84887538476     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033146     Document Type: Note

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