Playing the dating game: Do we know whom others would like to date?

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-147

  Chapdelaine, Andrea ^a   Levesque, Maurice J ^b   Cuadro, Raymund M ^b  

^a ALBRIGHT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 85047675020     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15324834BA210206     Document Type: Article

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