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...
Main Authors: | Aaron T. Goetz, Kayla Causey |
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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 |
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