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Author(s): E. E. Maccoby
Source: Child Development , Apr., 1984, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 317-328
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Society for Research in Child Development
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E. E. Maccoby
Stanford University
Presidential address, Society for Research in Child Development meeting, Detroit, April
1983. During the preparation of this paper, the author served as Fellow in the Center for Studies
in Youth Development, Stanford University. Requests for reprints should be sent to E. E. Mac-
coby, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.
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