Sentences with phrase «of mate preferences»

What might we expect to find in terms of mate preferences in the short - and long - term context?

Perhaps more psychometrically robust and theoretically - derived assessments of mate preferences will better settle some of the arguments between sociocultural (e.g., Eagly, 1987) and evolutionary psychologists (e.g., Buss, 1985).

Past research has assumed the content of mate preferences are the same because identical inventories were used to assess mate preferences in each context.

We extended this work by using the same data analysis technique, but examined the content and structure of mate preferences across the fundamentally important distinction of temporal context (Buss & Schmitt, 1993).

Prior attempts to factor analyze the latent structure of mate preferences has revealed a 3 - factor structure, but it concerned itself with long - term mate preferences (Campbell et al., 2001; Fletcher et al., 1999, 2004).

First, principal components analysis of the measure of mate preferences utilized in Study 1 yielded only one dominant factor, allowing for a less refined measure of preferred mate characteristics.

DB: Probably the issue of mate preferences, this whole idea that males have this ineluctable preference to mate with nubile females, and that females have this ineluctable preference to mate with high status males.

Mating is multidimensional and requires matching a pattern of mate preferences to a pattern of potential mate features.

New UTSC research shows that male black widow spiders prefer their female mates to be well - fed virgins, revealing a rare example of mate preference by male spiders.

To further test the consequence of mating preference on the evolution of menopause, we modeled the effect of mutations having delayed age of onset, using stochastic, computer simulation of a population with constant size, without pre-existing diminished fertility in females, and involving mutations that affected fertility as well as mortality.

Additional hypothalamus activations seem to be related to inter-sexual communication of mating preferences [21].

Based on economic models of mating psychology (Kenrick et al., 1993; Li et al., 2002), we predict that (self - perceived) mate value will be correlated with desire for all of the mate preference factors in the long - term context but just physical attractiveness in the short - term mating context.

In addition, we found that social status drops out as an important part of the mate preference structure in the short - term context.

Not exact matches

When a member starts browsing through profiles, the site records his or her preferences and then narrows down its 10 million users to a more manageable group of potential mates.

People with high incomes and high degrees of education claim that income and education matter to them more, and they display an especially large messaging preference for potential mates with high incomes and educations.

Individual bees are swayed by this information to the extent that, after inspection of individual localities, worker bees change their preference and dance for the superior place rather than the one they first discovered or that was communicated to them by their mates.

Our best trio at the back is harder to figure out, although my preference would be to see Monreal fielded alongside Rob Holding and Laurent Koscielny, although Shkodran Mustafi should have a good enough understanding of his team - mates now to warrant challenging Holding or Monreal for his spot in the side.

Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic are not included while not all the interviewees come across as sympathetic — notably David Haythornthwaite of AFC Fylde who nails his preferences for the UK Independence party to the mast — while Tueart says that he still regards fellow interlocutor Joe Royle as a mate but that the latter probably doesn't regard him as one after sacking him from the hot seat at Man City.

«Sometimes women just want to be rescued,» Your Tango declared after a survey of single women in New York City revealed a preference for firefighters (brawn) and Wall street execs (bucks) as potential perfect mates.

«Mate preferences will therefore be a central target and driver of biological evolution.

«Many want to believe that women and men are identical in their underlying psychology, but the genders differ strikingly in their evolved mate preferences in some domains,» said co-author of the study and psychology professor David Buss.

Men's and women's ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Of the 19 mate preferences that researchers considered, five varied significantly based on gender: good financial prospects, physical attractiveness, chastity, ambition and age.

The study of 4,764 men and 5,389 women in 33 countries and 37 cultures showed that sex differences in mate preferences are much larger than previously appreciated and stable across cultures.

I don't think there's good evidence for the sex differences that I examine most in the book, namely in the design features of the mind underlying jealousy and mate preference.

As the male plumage and displays and songs diversify, the mating preferences of the females are also evolving and diversifying among species.

As I point out in one section about male preferences, there's a tendency to focus on older males who reenter the mating market after divorce, and evolutionary psychologists take this to be pretty firmly clinching evidence in favor of their hypothesis.

Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

The study discovered that satisfaction was not reliably dependent on how a partner compared with a person's idea of the perfect mate, but rather whether others in the mating pool better matched a person's ideal preferences.

Researchers then used their new method to calculate each of the participants» and their partners» mate value, or desirability within the mating pool as determined by the group's average ideal preferences.

It is the latest twist in the tale of the major histocompatibility complex, a set of immune system genes that influences mating preferences.

Mice prefer the smell of other mice with different variants of MHC genes to their own and tend to confirm this preference by mating with mice possessing dissimilar MHC genes.

UCLA researchers analyzed dozens of published and unpublished studies on how women's preferences for mates change throughout the menstrual cycle.

Whether women's mate preferences shift at high fertility has been a source of debate since the late 1990s, when the first scholarly studies to hint at such a change appeared.

A dose of antibiotics abolished these preferences — the flies went back to mating without regard to diet — suggesting that it was changes in gut microbes brought about by diet, and not diet alone, that drove the change.

«Our research suggests that the relationship between feelings of vulnerability, as measured by fear of crime, and women's preference for physically formidable and dominant mates is stable, and does not update according to environmental circumstances or relative level of protection needed.»

The study also shows there may be more involved to mating preference than a mere matter of what's available.

In a new study titled «Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship withMating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationshipPreferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship withmating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationshippreferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with each.

The scientists point out that, in the wild (where there are no magnetic wingmen), the females» preference for local males» vibrations could be an early sign of speciation in the red mason bees: If the females of one subspecies stop mating with the other subspecies entirely, the two lineages may eventually become incompatible and diverge into two separate species.

The results were clear - cut and unambiguous: the aroused females did not show any particular preference for large males and mated as if randomly, leading the authors to conclude that once sexually aroused, females have no preference in terms of mates.

Instead, new research using fruit flies as a representative species indicates that females do not have specific preferences, suggesting that 150 years of evolutionary theory around mating choice may need to be tossed out.

«The authors make very strong claims about the effect of self - resemblance on mate preference,» says Jones.

But on paper, no blend of personal qualities and partner preferences thought to influence mate choices pegged which opposite - sex duos would hit it off, Joel's group concludes.

Paleoanthropologists Jean - Jacques Hublin and Luke Premo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tested this hypothesis by simulating how mating preferences alter gene flow between individuals in different groups.

Our results demonstrate the importance of considering mating preference in population demography.

«It has historically been a challenge to understand how mating preferences for ornamental traits can evolve when every individual succeeds in getting a mate,» Stern explains, in part because the seemingly simple selection process of monogamous pairs, where mates couple up and remove themselves from the broader gene - swapping pool for good, is tricky to handle mathematically.

Female mice show preferences for the scent of healthy males and yet surprisingly they choose unhealthy males just as often as mating partners.

Such two - sex models are mathematically much more complex than are one - sex models because of the inherent non-linearity introduced by the mating preference matrix.

Model AP involved an age indifferent preference in the formation of mating pairs («All Pairs», matrix MijAP, Table S2), whereas model YP («Young Pairs», matrix MijYP, Table S3) involved preferences between only younger males and younger females (models used indicated by bars in Fig. 1).

The appropriate «mating preference matrix» [Mij] is applied to potential parents (based on their age classes i and j) to determine the probability of pair formation.