Does the selection task detect cheater-detection?

From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 197-226

  Sperber, Dan ^a   Girotto, Vittorio ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203484708     Document Type: Chapter

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