Dads or cads? Women's strategic decisions in the mating game

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-122

  Aitken, Susan J ^a   Lyons, Minna ^a   Jonason, Peter K ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dating advertisements; Fertility; Machiavellianism; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876791326     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.02.017     Document Type: Article

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