Knowing your own mate value: Sex-specific personality effects on the accuracy of expected mate choices

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 984-989

  Back, Mitja D ^a   Penke, Lars ^b   Schmukle, Stefan C ^c   Asendorpf, Jens B ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

evolutionary psychology; human mate selection; individual differences; personality; sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051647312     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611414725     Document Type: Article

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