There’s Jealousy…and Then There’s Jealousy: Differential Effects of Jealousy on Testosterone

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 231-246

  Ritchie, Lane L ^a   van Anders, Sari M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Jealousy; Sexuality; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946750902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21987335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40750-015-0023-7     Document Type: Article

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