Who's chasing whom? The impact of gender and relationship status on mate poaching

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1016-1019

  Parker, Jessica ^a   Burkley, Melissa ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheating; Gender; Mate poaching; Relationship status

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650708038     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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