Partner Preferences Across the Life Span: Online Dating by Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 513-517

  Alterovitz, Sheyna Sears Roberts ^a   Mendelsohn, Gerald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; evolutionary theory; Internet dating; life span; romantic relationships

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; LIFESPAN; MALE; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPY; THEORY;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; ESTHETICS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549094090     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015897     Document Type: Article

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