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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter K. Jonason, Jeanne F. Cetrulo, Janice M. Madrid, Catherine Morrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490900700112