Sex differences in mate selection strategies: Content analyses and responses to personal advertisements in Brazil

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 395-406

  De Sousa Campos, Lucila ^a   Otta, Emma ^b   De Oliveira Siqueira, José ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age preferences; Evolutionary psychology; Mate selection strategies; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036742514     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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