Original ArticleWomen's fear of crime and preference for formidable mates: how specific are the underlying psychological mechanisms?☆
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Participants
One hundred fifty eight women, ranging in age from 19 to 62 (M = 32.19, SD = 10.04) participated via an online study in return for monetary compensation. The majority of women reported being White (70.3%), while other ethnicities were reported as South Asian (15.8%), East Asian (6.3%), Black (3.2%), Hispanic (1.3%), Latino (.6%) or other (2.5%). The online survey was designed to screen out men.
Materials and procedure
The study was conducted online with Mechanical Turk participants. At the recruitment stage, participants
Participants
An eligible sample of forty naturally and regularly cycling women, ranging in age from 18 to 35 (M = 19.80 years, SD = 3.37) participated in the study in return for course credit or payment. Informed consent was obtained from all women before participating, and the project received full ethical approval, as reviewed by the University of x's research ethics committee. Participants were recruited from a larger sample of women which responded to a prescreening questionnaire which checked eligibility
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This research was funded by PsyPAG (Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group) and the University of Leicester School of Psychology's Research Committee. We would also like to thank Samantha Palmer, Beth Shelton, Ellen Green, Shaquille Stephen, Olga Pacholec and Emma Shillcock for their help with data collection. We also thank the Editor, Jeffrey Snyder and the three anonymous reviewers their insightful comments and suggestions on this manuscript.