Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al. (2000)

Psychological Review

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 745-750

  Geary, David C ^a   Flinn, Mark V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTRUISM; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85047672417     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.109.4.745     Document Type: Review

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