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Female Age as a Predictor of Men’s Aggression Against Women

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Rachel M. James, Todd K. Shackelford & Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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James, R.M., Shackelford, T.K., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (2018). Female Age as a Predictor of Men’s Aggression Against Women. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1433-1

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