Attitudes toward heroic and nonheroic physical risk takers as mates and as friends

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-185

  Farthing, G William ^a  

^a University of Maine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Costly signaling; Friend selection; Heroes; Mate selection; Risk taking behavior; Showoff hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544308858     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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