Mate value of romantic partners predicts men's partner-directed verbal insults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-139

  Miner, Emily J ^a   Shackelford, Todd K ^a   Starratt, Valerie G ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Insults; Mate value; Sexual infidelity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649102173     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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