The baby effect and young male syndrome: Social influences on cooperative risk-taking in women and men

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 530-536

  Fischer, Dominic ^a   Hills, Thomas T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Gender differences; Mating; Reproduction; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865291718     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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