Demonstrates the role of appreciation in fostering love and cooperation for co-parenting.
We elaborate on importance of expressing appreciation in the formation of maintenance of romantic love. Reciprocal expression of appreciation may be a vital mediator of assortative mating, particularly insofar as human sexual mating forges lasting cooperative bonds essential for co-parenting.
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