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    T. Joel Wade, James Moran & Kelsey Salerno

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Wade, T.J., Moran, J., Salerno, K. (2018). In-Pair Female Attractiveness. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1772-1

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