Impact of market value on human mate choice decisions
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Summary
Adverts placed in newspaper personal columns are used to examine the extent to which evolutionary considerations affect the level of competition during the reproductively active period of people's lives and the extent that market value influences individual's willingness to make strong demands of prospective mates.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1999-02-07
- Cited by
- 202
- References
- 23
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1969167199
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32817333
Keywords
Mate choice, Value (mathematics), Reproductive value, Negotiation, Competition (biology)
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