Sex Differences in Affiliative Behavior and Social Bonding

Sex Differences in the Brain: From Genes to Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Young, Larry J ^a   Sue Carter, C S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliative behavior; Neuropeptides; Oxytocin; Prairie vole; Social bonding; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311587.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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