Sex Differences in Perceptions of Infidelity: Men Often Assume the Worst
Given that the costs of underperceiving (i.e., failing to detect) a partner's sexual infidelity would have been greater for men than for women, we hypothesized that men may possess evolved psychological mechanisms designed to overperceive the likelihood of their partner's sexual infidelity...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490900700208 |