Gender among multiple social categories: Social attraction in women but interpersonal attraction in men

Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-208

  Singh, Ramadhar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84917304607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203969229     Document Type: Chapter

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