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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mate value"”.
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Who Dates Who? Using Latent Profiles to Characterize Adolescent’s Mate Value
… by identifying distinct profiles of adolescent mate value using a person-centered approach and peer nomination data. Grounded in evolutionary theory and drawing on Cheng’s prestige vs dominance pathways to social influence and Cillessen’s agentic-communal social strategies framework, my thesis …
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Sociosexual Development: Infusing the Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper Model with Sexual Selection
… and within-sex differences in intersexual mate choice and intrasexual competition for members of the opposite sex. These two expansive evolutionary theories have been used by developmental scientists and social/personality psychologists to explain the variation observed in human …
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An Ethnographic Study of Domestic Violence
… when threats to the relationship, such as mate value discrepancies, increased independence, and potential rival mates, occur. Findings also suggest that our culture permits domestic violence as an acceptable means of conflict resolution and encourages victim stereotypes. Understanding the …
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Pick-Up lines: To Use a Neg or a Flippant?
… By taking into account mating strategies, mate value, attractiveness, and flirting strategies, a pattern of behaviors and reactions may be observed. This study examines perceived pick-up line appropriateness and effectiveness when the attractiveness of the man delivering them varies. To …
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Aggressive mating strategies in young adolescent girls
… spreading about competitors) to attract and keep mates. Consistent empirical evidence shows that some adolescent boys are on a developmental pathway in which they utilize aggression and risky behaviors in their mating strategies, but there is little research on adolescent girls' use of aggression …
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Efeito da motivação por status na escolha do curso de ensino superior
… the second study, 252 participants assessed the mate value, social status, and individual characteristics of stimulus subjects who had an academic background in low-status or high-status courses. Finally, in the third study, 365 undergraduate students provided information about their social …
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Physical Aggression and Controlling Behaviours Within Relationships
… characterised as common couple violence and intimate terrorism. To investigate Johnson's theory, a stratified sample containing students (n=1 13), women from a domestic violence refuge (n=43), and male prisoners (n=108). Participants completed measures of physical aggression, escalation of …
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Love me true : deception, affection, and evolutionary strategies of human mating
… may be seen as adaptive and strategically chosen mate-retention behaviors, which might be selected in the case that they can satisfy the needs of both the sender and receiver of the message. Broader questions about conceptualizing the nature of deception in close relationships are also raised and …