What do women want? An interactionist account of women's mate preferences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 749-754

  Wilbur, Christopher J ^a   Campbell, Lorne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dating; Evolutionary psychology; Mate preferences; Mating strategies; Sociosexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955923812     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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