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Nov. 6, 2011

Goode, E. (1996). Gender and courtship entitlement: responses to personal ads. Sex Roles, 34, pp. 141–169.

Greenlees, I. A., & McGrew, W. C. (1994). Sex and age differences in preferences and tactics of mate attraction: analysis of published advertisements. Ethology and Sociobiology, 15, pp. 59–72.

Hitsch, G.J., Hortacsu, A., and D. Ariely (2005). What Makes You Click: An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating. Available online at http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2006/0106_0800_0502.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.

LadderWiki.com (2009). The Ladder Wiki site. Available online at www.ladderwiki.com. Accessed Feb. 1, 2009. As of Oct. 2011 the LadderWiki site is down. It does appear to be scheduled for redeployment in the future, but as of this writing no definitive release date is available. A cached version of the site as of Nov. 2010 is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20101124164240/http://ladderwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page.

Penke, L., Todd, P.M., Lenton, A.P. and B. Fasolo (2007). How self-assessments can guide human mating decisions. In G. Geher & G. F. Miller (Eds.) (2007). Mating Intelligence: New insights into intimate relationships, human sexuality, and the mind's reproductive system. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 37-75. Available online at http://www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/prof/per/pdf/2007/Penke_et_al_2007_-_Self-assessments_and_mating_decisions.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.

Place, S.S., Todd, P.M., Penke, L., and J. Asendorpf (2009). The Ability to Judge the Romantic Interest of Others. Psychological Science, 20 (1). Pp. 22-26. Available online at http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Place_Todd_Penke_Asendorpf_2009_-_Judging_romantic_interest.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.

Pollet, V.P., and D. Nettle (2008). Partner wealth predicts self-reported orgasm frequency in a sample of Chinese women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2009. Available online at http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/orgasms.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.

Sadalla, E. K., Kenrick, D. T., & Venshure, B. (1987). Dominance and heterosexual attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, pp. 730–738.

Shackelford, T.K., Schmidtt, D.P., and D.M. Buss. Universal dimensions of human mate preferences. Personality & Individual Differences, 39, pp. 447–458. Available online at http://www.bradley.edu/academics/las/psy/facstaff/schmitt/documents/S.Schmitt.B.universal-mate-prefs-PAID-2005.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.

Todd, P.M., Penke, L., Fasolo, B., and A.P. Lenton (2007). Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 104 (38), pp. 447–458. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/pdf/todd.procnatacademy.2007.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2009.




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