Presentation Year

2025

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Social media has been used to share individual hauls of shoplifted items. Research suggests an evolutionary perspective for this behavior, suggesting mate-relevance. Images were collected using Tumblr search tags to examine the cost of stolen mate-relevant verses non-mate-relevant items posted online. The results demonstrate that mating-relevant items are significantly more expensive than non-mating-relevant items. Although the average prices of the stolen items were not significantly high for either category, the differences suggest a mating-relevant strategy for displaying shoplifted items.

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Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Emma

Primary Contact: Last Name

Frerichs

Primary Contact: Email

erf31@humboldt.edu

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Undergraduate Student

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832-418-3852

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1742

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