On the psychometric study of human life history strategies: State of the science and evidence of two independent dimensions

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Richardson, George B ^a   Sanning, Blair K ^a   Lai, Mark H C ^a   Copping, Lee T ^b   Hardesty, Patrick H ^c   Kruger, Daniel J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifactor model; Life history strategy; Life history theory; Mating competition; Middle adulthood; Psychometrics; Structural equation modeling; Super K

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COMPETITION; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATING; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 85014207412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474704916666840     Document Type: Article

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