Money, status, and the ovulatory cycle

Journal of Marketing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-39

  Durante, Kristina M ^a   Griskevicius, Vladas ^b   Cantú, Stephanie M ^c   Simpson, Jeffry A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Evolutionary psychology; Hormones; Positional goods; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896324286     PISSN: 00222437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jmr.11.0327     Document Type: Article

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