The desire for sexual variety as a key to understanding basic human mating strategies

Personal Relationships

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 425-455

  Schmitt, David P ^c   Shackelford, Todd K ^d   Duntley, Joshua ^a   Tooke, William ^b   Buss, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

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EID: 0035729244     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2001.tb00049.x     Document Type: Article

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