Deceptive Affectionate Messages: Mate Retention Deployed Under the Threat of Partner Infidelity
Deceptive affectionate messages (DAMs) have been proposed to act as relational maintenance techniques and, as such, might be part of a greater repertoire of mate retention behaviors. We analyzed data from 1,993 Mechanical Turk participants to examine the relations between DAMs and mate retention, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704919867902 |