Playing Hard-to-get: Manipulating one's Perceived Availability as a Mate

• Main Authors: JONASON, Peter K., LI, Norman P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: playing hard-to-get; sexual economics; sex differences; evolutionary psychology; Gender and Sexuality; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1178; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2434/viewcontent/JonasonLi_2013_Playing_hard_to_get_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

‘Playing hard-to-get’ is a mating tactic in which people give the impression that they are ostensibly uninterested to get others to desire them more. This topic has received little attention because of theoretical and methodological limitations of prior work. We present four studies drawn from four...