Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking

• Main Authors: Shan, Wen, Shenghua, Jin, Davis, Hunter Morgan, Peng, Kaiping, Shao, Xiao, Wu, Youyou, Liu, Shuqing, Lu, Jiewen, Yang, Jinhua, Zhang, Weiqing, Qiao, Miao, Wang, Jing, Wang, Yi
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99839; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13753
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Previous evolutionary literature demonstrating risk taking as a male mating strategy ignored cultural influences and the function of risk avoiding for women. The present research is the first to support the hypothesis that risk taking and risk avoiding, respectively, reflect Chinese male and female...