Human Mate Choice and the Wedding Ring Effect: Are Married Men more Attractive?

Human Nature

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-276

  Uller, Tobias ^a   Christoffer Johansson, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Human mate choice; Mate choice copying; Wedding ring effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346938372     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-003-1006-0     Document Type: Article

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