Social Exclusion and Female Mating Behavior: Rejected Women Show Strategic Enhancement of Short-Term Mating Interest

Because cost asymmetries in sexual reproduction have historically enabled women to exchange sexual access for other resources, including social resources, we tested the possibility that social exclusion would lead women to display an elevated preference for short-term mating strategies in the servic...

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Main Authors: Donald F. Sacco, Steven G. Young, Christina M. Brown, Michael J. Bernstein, Kurt Hugenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000313