Previous research has suggested that females hold "expressive" social representations of aggression and males hold "instrumental" representations [e.
Social representations of aggression in children
โ Scribed by Prof. John Archer; Sarah Parker
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 873 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0096-140X
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