ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology
Context-dependent evaluation of prospective mates in a fish.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Darwin, sexual selection, and the brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Rational choice of social group size in mosquitofish.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Females' sampling strategy to comparatively evaluate prospective mates in the peacock blenny Salaria pavo.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2017Article
- Female brain size affects the assessment of male attractiveness during mate choice.Science advances · 2017Article
- Context-dependent female preference for multiple ornaments in the bearded reedling.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Female social response to male sexual harassment in poeciliid fish: a comparison of six species.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- A phantom decoy shifts wild forager decisions in a natural environment.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Female choice is often assumed to be based on absolute preference, driven by a threshold value of mate attractiveness. However, increasing evidence suggests that females may instead perform a comparative evaluation of prospective mates, possibly incurring in violation of rational decision rules (e.g. independence from irrelevant alternative, IIA). A prototypical case is the 'asymmetrically dominated decoy' effect where the preference for a target option over a competitor is altered by the addition of an irrelevant alternative. Here, we test for this effect in the peacock blenny
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