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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"mate preferences"”.
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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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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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Adult mate preferences are not more closely associated with the opposite-sex parent than the same-sex parent: examinations focusing on biracial individuals and parental ethnicity
… role than the same-sex parent in shaping adult mate preferences (Freud, 1905; 1927). Learning-based theories such as mere exposure and sexual imprinting, on the other hand, do not necessarily predict that the opposite-sex parent will play a larger role in shaping mate preferences (e.g., Lorenz, …
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Female preferences, paternity and fitness: A combined morphometric/molecular genetic study on Poecilia latipinna and Poecilia formosa
Mate preferences represent an adaptive choice when costs associated with reproduction can be alleviated through gaining direct or indirect benefits from choosing the better mate. Female poeciliid fishes do show clear mate preferences for certain males although males in this highly promiscuous taxon …
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The origin of alternative phenotypes in fishes
… the same population. Such phenotypes may be raw material for full species formation, and the study of alternative-phenotype species should therefore be particularly worthwhile in speciation research. When alternative phenotypes are not entirely genetic they may arise as a result of developmental …
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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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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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Strategic Interference and Tinder Use: A Mixed-Method Exploration of Romantic Interactions in Contemporary Contexts
… explored how Tinder use primes gender-typical mate preferences and mating orientation. Finally, study three analyzed Internet forum posts on a Tinder-themed website to develop a qualitative picture of the real-world experiences of Tinder users. These studies revealed whether men and women truly …
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Contrast sensitivity and emotion recognition across the menstrual cycle
… the menstrual cycle. Cyclic shifts in female mate preferences, facial recognition and low-level visual processing have been attributed to such hormonal variations. The cycle shift hypothesis posits that such systematic shifts in female perception provide an evolutionarily valuable function, …
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Genetic architecture and ecological speciation in Heliconius butterflies
… they must be accompanied by corresponding mate preferences. Associations between trait and preference loci may be broken down by mating and subsequent recombination. I demonstrate a genetic linkage between loci for both male and female mate preference and wing colour pattern in Heliconius …
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Proximate and Ultimate Consequences of Stressed-Induced Maternal, Paternal, and Joint Parental Effects in a Changing World
… I addressed the consequences of stress-induced maternal, paternal, and joint parental effects from both ultimate (ecological/evolutionary) and proximate (physiological/epigenetic) perspectives. I used a full-factorial design in which threespine stickleback (<em>Gasterosteus aculeatu</em>s) …
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Strain Variation as a Window Into the Neural Logic of Drosophila Mate Choice
… wild food patches where flies congregate to mate–is a dynamic interaction between a male and surrounding potential partners that requires he integrate multiple sensory cues to direct his efforts efficiently and appropriately. While the behavior follows a similar basic pattern across …
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Effect of age on female choice in the field cricket, Gryllus interger
… in selectivity with respect to potential mates and overall level of motivation toward a stimulus source representative of a mate. This study demonstrates that female age may be one cause of variation in female choice. Females of different ages may have different mate preferences. As …
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The role of individual variation in auditory and visual processing: implications for mate choice
… signal content. To do this, I assessed female preferences to different levels of male song attractiveness and visual display intensity in an audiovisual playback study. This study was the first to show a switch in the direction of female preferences for a signal component (i.e., visual display) …
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Behavioral and genomic patterns of evolution during speciation via reproductive and agonistic character displacement
… such as hybridization or fighting over access to mates, are surprisingly common given that they frequently result in negative fitness consequences. Selection to avoid hybridizing with another species can result in mating trait evolution via reproductive character displacement (RCD). Similarly, …
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Clarifying the role of attention on Own Gender Bias in face recognition
… females who routinely inspect other females for mate guarding purposes would display a stronger female Own Gender Bias. However an opposite sex Gender Bias was expected for those who were sexually unrestricted and were always searching for new short-term partners. The results revealed no Own …