Attractive Female Romantic Partners Provide a Proxy for Unobservable Male Qualities

Previous research indicates that women find men more desirable when they appear to be desired by other women than in the absence of such cues—an effect referred to as female mate choice copying. Female mate choice copying is believed to emerge from a process whereby women use the presence of a man’s...

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Main Authors: Christopher D. Rodeheffer, Randi P. Proffitt Leyva, Sarah E. Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-05-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704916652144