Experimental immune challenges reduce the quality of male antennae and female pheromone output
Scientific Reports, 2022 Sexual signalling is a key feature of reproductive investment, yet the effects of immune system activation on investment into chemical signalling, and especially signal receiver traits such as antennae, are poorly understood.
Hieu T. Pham +3 more
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Personality Traits, Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, and Investment Performance in Vietnam
GLOBAL BUSINESS FINANCE REVIEW, 2017 The study explored the impact of personality traits, perceived risk, and perceived uncertainty on investment performance of individual investors...
Phung Thai Minh Trang, Mai Ngoc Khuong
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Dispositional individual differences in cognitive effort investment: establishing the core construct
BMC Psychology, 2021 Background Individuals tend to avoid effortful tasks, regardless of whether they are physical or mental in nature. Recent experimental evidence is suggestive of individual differences in the dispositional willingness to invest cognitive effort in goal ...
Corinna Kührt +3 more
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Inherent variation of functional traits in winter and summer leaves of Mediterranean seasonal dimorphic species. Evidence of a 'within leaf cohort' spectrum [PDF]
, 2018 The covariation pattern among leaf functional traits involved in resource acquisition has been successfully provided by the leaf economic spectrum (LES).
Puglielli, Giacomo, Varone, Laura
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Journal of IntelligenceNeed for Cognition (NFC) is an investment trait reflecting interindividual differences in intrinsically motivated engagement in cognitive endeavors. While other motivational constructs like the ability self-concept are typically conceptualized domain ...
Julia Grass, Anja Strobel
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Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits [PDF]
, 2020 Insect herbivores have the potential to change both physical and chemical traits of their host plant. Although the impacts of herbivores on their hosts have been widely studied, experiments assessing changes in multiple leaf traits or functions ...
Gripenberg, Sofia +5 more
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Reconstructing the effects of fishing on life-history evolution in North Sea plaice Pleuronectes platessa [PDF]
, 2016 Growing evidence suggests that fishing may induce rapid contemporary evolution in certain life-history traits. This study analyzes fisheries-induced changes in life-history traits describing growth, maturation, and reproduction, using an individual-based
Dieckmann, U. +2 more
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Journal of IntelligenceInvestment theory and related theoretical approaches suggest a dynamic interplay between crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, and investment traits like need for cognition.
Vsevolod Scherrer +2 more
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Charting self-esteem during marital dissolution. [PDF]
, 2021 ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to chart changes in self-esteem before and after marital dissolution to identify the factors that shape individuals' self-esteem during this life transition.MethodWe analyzed 10 annual waves of self-esteem data from
Baumeister R. F. +10 more
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Pre- and Postcopulatory Traits of Salvator Male Lizards in Allopatry and Sympatry
Scientifica, 2016 The reproductive traits of males are under influence of sexual pressures before and after copulation. The strength of sexual selection varies across populations because they undergo varying competition for mating opportunities.
Sergio Naretto +3 more
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