Mate preferences in social cognitive context: When environmental and personal change leads to predictable cross-cultural variation

The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 185-206

  Nelson, Leif D ^a   Pettijohn, Terry F ^b   Galak, Jeff ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596887     Document Type: Chapter

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