Slow and steady wins the race: Life history, mate value, and mate settling

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 612-618

  Dillon, Haley Moss ^a   Adair, Lora Elizabeth ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Johnson, Zoe ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history strategy; Mate value; Mate Value Inventory; R K selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880036002     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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