Females show more sustained performance during test-taking than males

Pau Balart1, Matthijs Oosterveen2

  • 1Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Ctra de Valldemossa km 7,5, 07122, Palma, Spain. pau.balart@uib.cat.

Nature Communications
|September 5, 2019
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