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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Mate Selection"”.
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Female Mate Selection for Long-Term Relationships
Some individuals believe that opposites attract. However, in order to have a long-term relationship individuals tend to marry someone who is similar to them. I propose that females tend to select partners who are similar to themselves. Previous studies have shown that individuals do tend to select …
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Aspects of cognition in human mate selection
… regarding what qualities people desire in their mates and why they want them. One study was conducted to replicate previous findings in mate preference using a more sophisticated paired comparison methodology to develop scales. Paired comparison scaling generally replicated gender differences in …
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Mate Selection Comparisons in Heterosexual and Homosexual Individuals
… of character traits and socioeconomic status on mate selection for both heterosexual and homosexual individuals was studied. The current study recruited 347 Central Washington University students who ranked the importance of descriptive traits in a potential long-term mate, and also reported how …
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Parental influence on mate selection: an exploratory study
… this exploratory study of parental influence on mate selection supported the thesis that parents influence their childrens' mate selection. Fifty married university students were interviewed and fifty-five of their parents returned mailed questionnaires. Although students indicated that they, …
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Mate selection in on-line dating (Párválasztás az interneten)
A kutatás kiinduló kérdése az volt, hogy hogyan befolyásolja az internet az egyén társadalmi kapcsolathálóját. A különböző társadalmi kapcsolatok közül a párkapcsolatokra esett a választás, az internethasználat különböző módjai közül pedig az internetes társkeresésre. Az internetes társkeresés …
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Single Male Preferences in Mate Selection: Intelligence and Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:25:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000848.pdf: 2661650 bytes, checksum: 8483acd814c21b060d65457cb2900dcc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Finding Mr. Wrong: Divergences in Mate Preferences and Mate Selection
… of the underlying processes of insecure partner selection. Experiment 1 used a cognitive load manipulation to determine if limited mental resources lead people to find insecure partners more attractive. Experiment 2 examined the role of flattery in the selection of insecure partners. Experiment 3 …
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An evolutionary approach to studying search behavior in the context of human mate selection
… search behavior of individuals in the context of mate selection. That is, how much information individuals search for prior to initiating mating relationships? What information individuals deem important when searching for mates? How much information individuals require before rejecting mates? …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Never-Married Chinese and American Adults' Mate Selection Perceptions and Criteria
Mate selection has garnered much attention in the existing literature. However, most mate selection research has reviewed mate selection preferences and criteria individually. In this study, the researcher attempted to illustrate mate selection as an interactive process in which individuals are …
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Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults
… if skin color is associated with long-term mate preference among U.S.-based Desi adults as it is among Desi in South Asia, and if so, if that relationship is mediated by perceived attractiveness. It also aimed to determine if, in addition to a direct effect on partner desirability, …
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An Analysis of Species Recognition in Sympatric, Allopatric and Reciprocally Cross-fostered PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS and PEROMYSCUS EREMICUS (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
… to compare homospecific and heterospecific mate selection in two closely related species, Peromyscus californicus and Peromyscus eremicus. Comparisons were made between allopatric and sympatric populations and between males and females for mate selection performance. Both species made …
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The art of parameterless evolutionary algorithms
… population size parameter and the choice of the mate selection operator"--Abstract, page iii.
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Spousal Concordance in Academic Achievements and Intelligence and Family-Based Association Studies Identified Novel Loci Associated with Intelligence.
<p>Assortative Mating, the tendency for mate selection to occur on the basis of similar traits, plays an essential role in understanding the genetic variation on academic achievements and intelligence (IQ). It is an important mechanism explaining spousal concordance. We used principal component …
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"You Are So Beautiful... To Me": Romantic Partners' Insight Into Others' Perceptions
… a highly evaluative trait important for mate selection and partner perception. Our results suggest that romantic partners have a sophisticated level of knowledge about each other, and this multi-faceted knowledge helps fulfill motives driven by both esteem- and epistemic-related needs: …
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Causes and consequences of sex ratio bias in Nazca boobies
… This finding has important implications for mate competition. The proportional representation of males among the adults ready to mate in a population at a given moment is a central concept in explaining variation in sex roles, the intensity of mating competition, and mate choice. Given the …
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Scale dependent processing of conspecific signals in the gray treefrog Hyla versicolor
… widespread and often essential for successful mate selection, territorial defense, and many social behaviors in many taxa. Laboratory studies often use ‘simplified’, artificial stimuli which have high signal-to-noise rations and are easy to manipulate, but often do not capture the true range …
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Cues of Colorism: The Psychological, Sociocultural, and Developmental Differences between Light-skinned and Dark-skinned African-Americans
… examined a select group of variables, such as mate selection, self-esteem and perceived attractiveness. However, there is no single study on differences between African-Americans across several domains, including their psychological (skin color satisfaction and self-esteem), sociocultural …
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Differentiation of self and marital satisfaction : an exploratory analysis based on the Bowen theory
… of marital quality, the FSPP contributed approximately 17% of the variability in DAS scores over and above that variance contributed by all of the demographic variables, for males and females.ConclusionsIn this nonclinical population of highly educated, middle class married couples, the FSPP was …
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