Mothers are less disgust sensitive than childless females

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-69

  Prokop, Pavol ^a,b   Fančovičová, Jana ^a  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Inst Zool Slovak Acad of Sci   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotion; Gender; Parental investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959387001     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.064     Document Type: Article

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