Sexual Coercion

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 394-418

  Malamuth, Neil M ^a   Huppin, Mark ^a   Paul, Bryant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychological (EP) perspectives; Male perpetrator's psychology; Sexual arousal to force (SAF); Sexual coercion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987811456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939376.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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