All you need is love: Is the sociometer
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Jessica A. Pass; Siegwart M. Lindenberg; Justin H. Park
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Self‐esteem has been proposed to serve as a sociometer, a gauge of one's value as a relationship partner. Based on evolutionary reasoning, we hypothesized that the sociometer is particularly sensitive to “capacity rejection” in the mating domain. Capacity rejection implies that one has