Social Exclusion and Female Mating Behavior: Rejected Women Show Strategic Enhancement of Short-Term Mating Interest
Because cost asymmetries in sexual reproduction have historically enabled women to exchange sexual access for other resources, including social resources, we tested the possibility that social exclusion would lead women to display an elevated preference for short-term mating strategies in the servic...
Main Authors: | Donald F. Sacco, Steven G. Young, Christina M. Brown, Michael J. Bernstein, Kurt Hugenberg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-07-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000313 |
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