Do audience effects lead to relaxed male sexual harassment?

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1739-1758

  Padur, Lisa ^a   Wedekind, Juliane ^a   Öztürk, Öznur ^a   Streit, Bruno ^b   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a   Plath, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audience effect; Communication networks; Foraging; Sexual conflict; Sexual asexual coexistence; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA MEXICANA;

EID: 71049114580     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579509X12483520922124     Document Type: Article

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