The disengagement of attentive resources from task-irrelevant cues to sexual and emotional infidelity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 633-644

  Schützwohl, Achim ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context sensitivity; Cues to infidelity; Disengagement of attentive resources; Evolved psychological mechanism; Jealousy; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749094904     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.022     Document Type: Article

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