Male mate retention mediates the relationship between female sexual infidelity and female-directed violence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1422-1431

  Kaighobadi, Farnaz ^a   Starratt, Valerie G ^a   Shackelford, Todd K ^a   Popp, Danielle ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct guarding; Intimate relationships; Sexual infidelity; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549113188     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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