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Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries

Menelaos Apostolou Orcid Logo, Mark Sullman, Béla Birkás, Agata Błachnio, Ekaterina Bushina, Fran Calvo, William Costello, Tanja Dujlovic, Tetiana Hill, Yanina Lisun, Denisse Manrique‐Millones, Oscar Manrique‐Pino, Norbert Meskó Orcid Logo, Martin Nechtelberger, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Christian Kenji Ollhoff Orcid Logo, Aneta Przepiórka, Ádám Putz, Mariaelena Tagliabue Orcid Logo, Burcu Tekeş, Andrew Thomas Orcid Logo, Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Yan Wang, Paula Wright, Sílvia Font‐Mayolas

Personal Relationships, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 4 - 23

Swansea University Author: Andrew Thomas Orcid Logo

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The current research aimed to study the strategies that people employ in order to become more desirable as mates in different cultural settings. More specifically, using a closed-ended questionnaire on a sample of 7181 participants from 14 different countries, we identified 10 different strategies t...

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Martin Nechtelberger
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Christian Kenji Ollhoff
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Ádám Putz
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Jaroslava Varella Valentova
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