Perinatal women dominantly protect—rather than submissively cede—resources when interacting with threatening‐looking others.
When competing for resources, people appear particularly sensitive to social cues of threat, tending to submissively cede resources to more (vs. less) threatening‐looking others. This tendency appears especially pronounced among those that are physically weaker and thus more vulnerable to harm. One...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 3; pp. 1106 - 1119 |
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