Social exclusion and female mating behavior: Rejected women show strategic enhancement of short-term mating interest

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 573-587

  Sacco, Donald F ^a   Young, Steven G ^b   Brown, Christina M ^c   Bernstein, Michael J ^d   Hugenberg, Kurt ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating; Ostracism; Sex differences; Social exclusion; Social rejection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872366846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491201000313     Document Type: Article

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