Confirming preferences or collecting data? Information search strategies and romantic partner selection

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 202-221

  Hennessy, Michael H ^a   Fishbein, Marty ^a   Curtis, Brenda ^a   Barrett, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Risk assessments; Sexual partner selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; MARRIAGE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 41349115519     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500701246010     Document Type: Article

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