Cash in hand, want better looking mate: Significant resource cues raise men's mating standards

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-58

  Yong, Jose C ^a   Li, Norman P ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Mate preferences; Mating; Mating standards; Money; Priming; Resource cues; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863398686     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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