Stepping Out of the Caveman's Shadow: Nations' Gender Gap Predicts Degree of Sex Differentiation in Mate Preferences

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1176-1185

  Zentner, Marcel ^a   Mitura, Klaudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross cultural differences; evolutionary psychology; human mate selection; sex differences; sex role attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867629531     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612441004     Document Type: Article

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