The Rival Wears Prada: Luxury Consumption as a Female Competition Strategy

Previous studies on luxury consumption demonstrated that men spend large sums of money on luxury brands to signal their mate value to women and, thus, increase their reproductive success. Although women also spend copious amounts of money on luxuries, research focusing on women's motives for lu...

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Main Authors: Liselot Hudders, Charlotte De Backer, Maryanne Fisher, Patrick Vyncke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200306