Browsing Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie (inkl. GAUSS) by Referee "Penke, Lars Prof. Dr."
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Engagement in web-based interventions for individuals who sexually abused children
(2024-05-16)Although treatment for individuals who committed sexual offenses against children (ICSOC) can reduce their likelihood of reoffending, many individuals remain without treatment due to a lack of its availability. One way to ... -
Ovulatory cycle shifts in human mating psychology - Implications for the evolution of concealed ovulation and female oestrus
(2022-01-25)The existence of ovulatory cycle shifts in human mating psychology and their function for reproduction have been subject to a long-standing debate. Past research has provided initial evidence that women experience distinct ... -
Re-evaluating the Influence of Preferences on Attraction and Relationship Decisions
(2021-12-16)Several theories assume that humans possess partner preferences influencing their selection of a partner. It has been proposed that humans seek a partner meeting their preferences and that a match between their preferences ... -
Health consequences of group living in wild Verreaux’s sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)
(2020-07-10)The evolution of sociality exposed individuals to several new health-related costs and benefits, which fundamentally affect their survival and reproductive success. Group living provides better access to food and mates and ... -
Cognition in the wild Individual differences in cognitive abilities and their link with fitness in a wild primate, the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
(2020-03-09)Cognition, the process by which animals acquire, process, store and use information from their environment, plays a major role in various behaviours across all aspects of an individuals’ life. However, despite this overall ... -
The role of oxytocin, testosterone and cortisol in affiliation and bonding in male Barbary macaqaues
(2020-01-30)Many group living mammals minimize the costs of sociality by forming stable affiliative relationships, termed social bonds, with other group members. These bonds are highly adaptive as they increase fitness, and strongly ... -
The costs and benefits of sociality in semi-free ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)
(2019-03-04)Parasite infections are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, and increased risk of parasite transmission has been suggested as one of the major costs of group living. With bigger group size and higher interaction ... -
Modulating verbal episodic memory encoding with transcranial electrical stimulation
(2018-10-29)Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) are techniques widely employed in the last decades to the study of physiology of cognitive processes, and bring the promise of being a complementary therapeutic intervention to ... -
The effects of ovulatory cycle shifts in steroid hormones on women's mate preferences and attraction
(2018-10-02)Do women’s mate preferences and attraction change across the ovulatory cycle? This is a central question in human evolutionary sciences. Psychological changes, especially shifting mate preferences, across the ovulatory ... -
When Students Fail: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Test Anxiety
(2018-05-28)Test anxiety can hinder students from achieving their full potential in evaluative situations, such as tests or examinations. Converging evidence suggests that performance-related worries impair the working memory of these ... -
Roots of Primate Cognition. The Primate Cognition Test Battery applied to three species of lemurs (Varecia variegata, Lemur catta and Microcebus murinus).
(2018-05-16)Compared to other mammals, primates have evolved relatively large brains and outstanding cognitive skills. Given that brain tissue is energetically very costly, one major evolutionary question concerns possible selection ... -
Intra- and Intersexual Selection on Men: Their Relative Importance and Hormonal Underpinnings
(2018-01-26)Male competition is an important influence on the distribution of resources, such as mates, food or territory, and has been shown to be more strongly implicated, compared to female mate choice, in sexual selection on men. ... -
Secular changes in sexual and natural selection against deleterious genetic mutations in humans
(2017-12-20)All genetic variation once arose by mutation. Genetic variation is the substance on which natural selection can act, but mutations are random. Therefore, new variations usually have negative or no effects on an organism’s ... -
Social Perception of Dance Movements
(2015-10-09)Bees do it, birds do it, and humans do it too – they dance. But what is the function of dance? The answer to this question is not trivial and has kept researchers busy for decades. It is certainly premature to conclude ...