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Investment Versus Future Payoff

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  1. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

    Ashley Rankin & Nikki Clauss

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Rankin, A., Clauss, N. (2017). Investment Versus Future Payoff. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_772-1

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