For Love or Money? The Influence of Personal Resources and Environmental Resource Pressures on Human Mate Preferences

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 841-849

  Anderson, Rindy C ^a   Klofstad, Casey A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INCOME; INTERNET; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864301359     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02077.x     Document Type: Article

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