Trade-offs in a dangerous world: women's fear of crime predicts preferences for aggressive and formidable mates

By Jeffrey K. Snyder, Daniel M.T. Fessler, L. Tiokhin, David A. Frederick, Sokbae Lee, C. David Navarrete. 2011

134 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Barnaby J. W. Dixson

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. R. Brooks
2. Barnaby J. W. Dixson
3. M. Petersen
4. Lasse Laustsen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Barnaby J. W. Dixson
2. R. Brooks
3. M. Petersen
4. Lasse Laustsen

Citations in the corpus

• Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015, background): “Snyder et al. (2011) show that women’s fear of crime positively predicts their preference for a dominant and physically formidable mate.”
• The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities (2013, background): “Further, masculine traits associated with aggression and dominance may provide direct benefits such as protection to long-term mates (Snyder et al., 2011), which could explain why beards received higher parental ability ratings.”