Mate preferences in the US and Singapore: A cross-cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-294

  Li, Norman P ^a   Valentine, Katherine A ^a   Patel, Lily ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Economics; Mate preferences; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249232621     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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