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SUBMITTER: Zhang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4665087 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Lin L Liu Shen S Li Yue Y Ruan Lu-Jun LJ
Frontiers in psychology 20151201
Previous studies about the effects of social rejection on individuals' social behaviors have produced mixed results and tend to study mating behaviors from a static point of view. However, mate selection in essence is a dynamic process, and therefore sociometer theory opens up a new perspective for studying mating and its underlying practices. Based on this theory and using self-perceived mate value in the relationship between heterosexual rejection and mate choice as a mediating role, this curr ...[more]