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Finding Mr. Wrong: Divergences in Mate Preferences and Mate Selection
… that may make them attractive to potential mates. I found that flattery, but not cognitive distraction, increased attraction to insecure partners. Experiment 3 demonstrated that insecure individuals presented themselves as kind, humorous, and interesting people to potential mates. Anxious …
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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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Ka mate ko te mate, ka ora taku toa: Ko ngā matawhāura o te rau tau tekau mā iwa
… i te āhua ki te tikanga ki te pakanga, ki te mate te ihoiho, ko te rapunga i te āhua ki ōna neke, ki ōna nuku, ki ōna panoni, ki ōna hounga te whainga. Kei te kapi katoa ki tā te pukapuka, i tā te tuhinga. Wāhia ana kia whā ōna ahoaho, koia, ko te pūtakenga mai o te riri, o te Matawhāura. …
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Hormonal mechanisms for variation in female mate choice
Although female mate choice has been the subject of many investigations, the causes of variation in mate choice are less understood. Theoretical models predict that individual females should show variable mate choices as a consequence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Empirical support for these …
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Women’s Status and Trade-Offs in Mate-Preferences
… and social influences on human behaviour. For mate preferences and trade-offs, sex differences are explained via two main theoretical orientations: Evolutionary Psychology (EP) models and Biosocial models. In EP, the differences observed between the sexes are the result of divergent sexual …
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Sexual Selection and Mate Preference in Astatotilapia Burtoni
… males, but ascending males still failed to mate with females.</p> <p>Secondly, by investigating female responses to male cues, we aimed to learn how female sexual selection can be modulated by male phenotypic plasticity. We found that females did not have a preference between blue and yellow …
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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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The Evolution of Mate Choice in Spadefoot Toads
A second controversial topic in understanding how sexual selection works is explaining why males often form breeding aggregations. This behavior seems paradoxical, because, by clustering with competitors, males may reduce their reproductive success. I examined male aggregation behavior in spadefoot …
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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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The desire for socio-cultural similarity in a mate
Various socio-cultural domains were investigated for the influence they may have on mating decisions. 102 male and 114 female university students were presented "potential dates" from a mock Internet dating service. Potential dates were described in terms of their ethnicity, music interest, …
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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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The circuit basis of olfactory mate recognition and localisation
The circuit basis of olfactory mate recognition and localisation Finding a mate has two essential steps: recognising an appropriate partner and locating it. Sex pheromones are used in solving both tasks; they carry qualitative information to recognise, and positional information to locate a mate. …
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Preference and affiliation refines the neurotranscriptome pathway for mate preference
Mate choice decisions and behavior contribute to long-term evolutionary outcomes. Understanding the genetic architecture encapsulating mate choice is an important metric in identifying the drivers and variability in those decisions. To address this question, female sailfin mollies (Poecilia …
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Mate choice and reproductive success in the speckled bushcricket, Leptophyes punctatissima
… to the stationary female. Consequently mate choice could occur at either of two stages: first, during the interchange of calls and second, on the basis of proximate criteria once the male has approached. There is no evidence that females choose their mates on the basis of calling …
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Charakterisierung von ausgewählten Protein-Phosphatasen und MATE-Proteinen aus Arabidopsis thaliana
… Arbeit wurde das Gen NIC1, welches für ein MATE-Membranprotein kodiert, identifiziert und charakterisiert. Die Sequenzierung des Genoms von A. thaliana hatte gezeigt, dass mindestens 56 MATE-Gene in dieser Pflanze vorhanden sind. Zum Zeitpunkt der Identifikation von NIC1 war keines dieser …
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