Comment: Menstrual cycle fluctuations in women's mate preferences

Emotion Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 253-254

  Hyde, Janet S ^a   Salk, Rachel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mate preferences; Menstrual cycle; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904194995     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073914523049     Document Type: Review

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