Evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives on love: The influence of gender, personality, and local ecology on emotional investment in romantic relationships

The New Psychology of Love

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 249-273

  Schmitt, David P ^a  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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