Handedness and sex roles: Mixed-handers are less sex-congruent stereotyped

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-13

  Tran, Ulrich S ^a   Stieger, Stefan ^a   Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Handedness; Latent class analysis; Mixed handedness; Sex role identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896462784     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.032     Document Type: Article

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