Social endocrinology: Hormones and social motivation

Social Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 171-189

  Mehta, Pranjal H ^a   Josephs, Robert A ^b  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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