Verbal Compliments as a Differential Source of Mate Poaching Threat for Men and Women

Evol Psychol · 2014 · PMC10519138

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marginally significantp = .065so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The critical 2 (sex) × 2 (compliment) interaction was significant for “jealous” ( p = .006), “distressed/upset” ( p = .049), and “threatened” ( p = .006), and marginally significant for “insecure” ( p = .065).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

However, these sex differences did not reach statistical significance.

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did not reach conventional levels of significanceno p-value reported

People whose current self-evaluation was somewhat negative (i.e., low state self-esteem) imagined feeling worse in response to the physical appearance compliment, but the three-way interaction with participant sex did not reach conventional levels of significance.

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