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Does Having A “Wingman” Actually Help You Get A Date?

2016-05-25

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Does a 'wingman' make you more attractive?

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References / Further Reading:

Hierarchical Encoding Makes Individuals in a Group Seem More Attractive http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/1/230.full

Kin selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys http://www.eve.ucdavis.edu/gpatricelli/Assets/Krakauer_Nature_2005.pdf

Adaptive advantages of cooperative courtship for subordinate male lance-tailed manakins.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17427119

Cooperative Courtship: Helping Friends Raise and Raze Relationship Barriers http://psp.sagepub.com/content/35/10/1285.short

Firefly synchrony: a behavioral strategy to minimize visual clutter. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616271

Deceptive Strategic Identity Support: Misrepresentation of Information to Protect Another Individual's Public Self‐Image

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/jasp/2011/00000041/00000011/art00012