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Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish
Behavioral Ecology, 2022 AbstractExaggerated and conspicuous sexually selected traits are often costly to produce and maintain. Costly traits are expected to show resource-dependent expression, since limited resources prevent animals from investing maximally in multiple traits simultaneously.
Erika Fernlund Isaksson +4 more
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Effect of competitive cues on reproductive morphology and behavioral plasticity in male fruitflies [PDF]
, 2015 Phenotypic plasticity will be favored whenever there are significant fitness benefits of responding to environmental variation. The extent and nature of the plasticity that evolves depends on the rate of environmental fluctuations and the capacity to ...
Bretman, Amanda +3 more
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No Evidence for a Trade-Off Between Competitive Traits and Ejaculate Quality in Humans
Evolutionary Psychology, 2020 Research in nonhuman animals (including insects, birds, and primates) suggests a trade-off in males between investment in competitive traits and investment in ejaculate quality. Previous research reported a negative association between perceived strength
Tara DeLecce +3 more
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Vocations as a source of identity: reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics [PDF]
, 2014 Although work is a core part of life, the direction of influence from personality to work has typically been conceived as only unidirectional. The present study aims to contribute to the literature by considering reciprocal relations between personality ...
De Fruyt, Filip, Wille, Bart
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 Individual energetic limitations in variable environments lead to life-history trade-offs between investment in somatic growth and gonadal tissue, causing individuals to adopt specific behavioural tactics to attain reproduction.
Tomislav Vladic, Torbjörn Järvi
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Jurnal Manajemen Teori dan Terapan, 2021 Each investor has an investment plan to reach their investment objectives. Perceived investment performance was affected by a high level of the psychological aspect.
Ninditya Nareswari +2 more
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Does Personality Trump Financial Knowledge? Unraveling the Predictors of Cryptocurrency Investment [PDF]
Journal of Business, Communication and TechnologyDrawing on the financial capability theory and the personality-investment fit theory, the study aims to examine the relative influence of financial knowledge and personality traits on university students’ cryptocurrency investment.
karima Al Balushi, Muhammad Pervez
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A model for female South African investors’ financial risk tolerance
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 Research relating to the influence of investor’s demographic factors and personality traits on financial risk tolerance receives increasing attention.
J. Lawrenson, Z. Dickason-Koekemoer
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Environmental differences between sites control the diet and nutrition of the carnivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia [PDF]
, 2018 Background and aims: Carnivorous plants are sensitive to small changes in resource availability, but few previous studies have examined how differences in nutrient and prey availability affect investment in and the benefit of carnivory.
A Chao +59 more
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Arranged Marriage, Partner Traits and Parental Investment
, 2021 Both sexes choose mates based on qualities that will enhance offspring viability and quality. In some cases individuals are forced to reproduce with less desirable mates which has been shown to result in lower quality offspring.
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