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Psychological Evidence for Human Sperm Competition

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Anti-cuckoldry adaptations; Men’s mating psychology.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Tara DeLecce

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    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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DeLecce, T. (2016). Psychological Evidence for Human Sperm Competition. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3588-1

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