Comparison between primary and secondary mate markets: An analysis of data from lonely hearts columns

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1849-1857

  Kozieł, Sławomir ^a   Pawłowski, Bogusław ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Education; Height; Mate market; Personal advertisement; Preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142153704     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00034-5     Document Type: Article

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