Not all men are sexually coercive: A preliminary investigation of the moderating effect of mate desirability on the relationship between female infidelity and male sexual coercion

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-14

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

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Female infidelity; Male sexual coercion; Mate desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649103319     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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