Testing Error Management Theory: Exploring the Commitment Skepticism Bias and the Sexual Overperception Bias

Human Communication Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 618-634

  Henningsen, David Dryden ^a   Henningsen, Mary Lynn Miller ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84961821496     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: 14682958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2010.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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