Gift-Giving as a Courtship or Mate-Retention Tactic?: Insights from Non-Human Models
Biology and social science research has studied gift-giving, but the former has been more concerned with courtship and the latter has come from either a cultural-relativistic perspective or a handicap principle perspective. We argue that our understanding of gift-giving in humans can be enhanced by...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2009-01-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490900700112 |