Sex differences and lifestyle-dependent shifts in the attunement of self-esteem to self-perceived mate value: Hints to an adaptive mechanism?

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  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Research in Personality

• Publication date

  2008-08-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JRP.2008.02.003
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