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  1. School for Mass Communication Research, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Laura Vandenbosch

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Vandenbosch, L. (2018). Sexual Socialization. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2472-1

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