Estimated hormones predict women's mate preferences for dominant personality traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-196

  Lukaszewski, Aaron W ^a   Roney, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Estrogen; Mate preference; Menstrual cycle; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349221189     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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