Too good to be 'true'? The handicap of high socio-economic status in attractive males

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1291-1300

  Chu, Simon ^a   Hardaker, Romy ^b   Lycett, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Humans; Infidelity; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947183298     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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