Sentences with phrase «mate value experiences»

However, even with this notion in mind, the hypotheses that others» mate value decreases due to misfortune and one's own mate value experiences a relative boost were not supported.

Not exact matches

Shove it up your ass mate, I actually liked Halo 3, I actually liked the production values of Heavenly Sword, I look forward to seeing what an immersive experience like Killzone 2 could provide, or what an interactive Star Wars game like Mass Effect can give us.

Closer to home, when we lived on a dirt road in the Hudson Valley (we now live in a village), my son, wife and I experienced the value of silence and sound as a male woodcock chose our back field and the sky overhead for its dusk mating flight, a ritual that includes a spiraling descent to the ground and mating call.

As I have posted over and over again in this blog, evolutionary psychologists expect that only some men pursue short - term mating strategies (e.g., given their own mate value, physical attractiveness, attachment experiences, local pathogen levels, local sex ratios, and so forth; see Gangestad & Simpson, 2000).

Finally, this research suggests that we might not raise our own mate value and lower the mate value of misfortunate others when we experience schadenfreude.

A group of researchers hypothesized that experiencing schadenfreude signals to oneself that the «mate value» (or how desirable a person is to potential romantic partners) of the misfortunate person has been decreased.1 For example, a group of women may laugh at a man who trips and may see him as less of a «catch» than a man who strides by confidently.

So, for example, even though women experienced more schadenfreude after imagining that their friend gained 15 pounds, they didn't rate themselves as having a higher mate value than their friend in this scenario.