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The use of historic battlefields for tourism development in the Czech republic
ŠULITKOVÁ, Nikola
This bachelor thesis explores how to use the potencial of places where particular battles happened. It is a part of tourism which belongs to dark tourism, concretely military tourism. The research is done through a survey, which takes place in South Bohemia, mainly the town of Písek and its surroundings. The main objective is to find out, how to improve battlefields and adjacent areas for visitors. Destinations have to be more attractive to achieve higher attendance. This paper deals especially with the battlefield at Sudoměř, where the monument of Jan Žižka can be seen. It is the main tourist attraction in this location. The output of the research is to provide a report with recommendations to popularize the entire location and to prompt people to visit it.
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An effect of the hairstyle symmetry on the female face attractiveness
LAPEŠOVÁ, Tereza
Diploma thesis deals with the effect of the hairstyle symmetry on the female face attractiveness. The aim of the thesis is to experimentally find out the possible relationship between the hairstyle symmetry and the attractiveness of the female face. To map out the views of attractiveness, an online questionnaire was submitted to the respondents of both sexes to evaluate female faces with a symmetrical and asymmetric hairstyles. A total of 56 images were created, which were evaluated by the respondents in terms of attractiveness on the scale of 1-10. Most respondents slightly favored the symmetrical hairstyles, only one sample of male respondents slightly favored the asymmetric hairstyles. Since the difference in symmetrical and asymmetric variations was not statistically significant in any case, it is possible to claim that the symmetry of the hairstyle does not affect the attractiveness of the female face.
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Attractiveness of the summer camp with a spiritual program
ROH, Zdeněk
The diploma thesis concentrates on and deals with the attractiveness of YMCA summer camp. The aim is to find out what factors are able to influence the decisions of children and parents if they take part in this camp. The work has been bringing in the different possibilities of activities. It is expected from these activities to have the ability in infuencing the attractiveness of this characteristic the summer camp. These activities have been proved by evidence and realized on the specific cases in the practice in this diploma thesis. The answers have been looked for in the context of the basic research question and the diploma thesis has been drawing conclusions on the basic of the research result of the sample of respondents.
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Relationship between reactivity of immune system and quality of human body odour
Schwambergová, Dagmar ; Havlíček, Jan (advisor) ; Vinkler, Michal (referee)
It was previously proposed that expression of secondary sexual characteristics may provide cues to individual's immunocompetence. Body odour could partly serve as one of such characteristics, which provides crucial information about potentional partner even in humans. The main aim of the diploma thesis was to test a relationship between body odour quality and reactivity of immune system. In empirical part of the study we collected body odour samples from 21 men aged between 18-40 years before and two weeks after the vaccination against hepatitis A and B (Twinrix) and meningococcus (Menveo). The participant's blood samples were obtained three times to determine levels of IgG and IgM antibodies (markers of reactivity of immune system), testosterone, cortisol and CRP levels. In the second part of the study, a panel of 88 female raters aged 18-40 assessed body odour samples for their attractiveness, intensity and healthiness. In contrast to our expectations, we found no significant association between levels of antibodies induced by vaccination and perceived body odour attractiveness and health. Simultaneously, there were no significant changes in body odour ratings, neither in levels of testosterone and cortisol ratings, before and after the vaccination. However, we found a negative association...
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Fluctuating asymmetry as a predictor of attractiveness of a human face
LAPEŠOVÁ, Tereza
This bachelor thesis deals with fluctuating asymmetry (FA) and its impact on the attractiveness of a human face. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create a current overview on how FA affects perceived attractiveness of a human face. There are primarily explained evolutionary mechanisms related to the topic, followed by an overview of the general recourses of the partner choice among people in terms of evolutionary psychology, supplemented by an overview of specific researches and methods used in the research of attractiveness of FA in human faces.
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Relationships among characteristics perceived from photos of faces
Machová, Kamila ; Flegr, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Děchtěrenko, Filip (referee)
Estimating others characteristics from facial cues plays an important role in our everyday lives. People usually agree in these estimates well and many of these estimates correlate. Majority studies consider one or few character- istics only and their respondents usually are in narrow ranges of ages. This study is partly based on rating of 13 characteristics of 80 men's and women's faces by respondents of various ages. These data were originally collected within yet unpublished study of Jaroslav Flegr, Amy E. Blum and Šebastian Kroupa. In this study I most strikingly found out that: i) older respondents of both genders rates photos of women as more attractive, ii) respondents spend more time by rating faces considered by themselves as more attractive or nice, iii) men rate people with different eye color as more attractive and women rate others with the same eye color as nicer, iv) preferences computed by two methods do not differ much. 1
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Facial attractiveness and its correlates in cross-culture perspective
Fiala, Vojtěch ; Kleisner, Karel (advisor) ; Tureček, Petr (referee)
Past studies, that studied facial attractiveness, focus mainly on fluctuating asymmetry, averageness, masculinity, femininity, and skin coloration influences on attractiveness assessment. Their findings have been used by intercultural studies. They have revealed that people from diverse areas prefer differential development of sexually dimorphic cues, according to, e.g. local health and economic situation. We have done an online questionnaire survey. We included Czech (N = 100), Iranian (N = 87) and Turkish (N = 185) facial stimuli and raters of both sexes. We have studied whether members of all the populations would utilize the facial colouration and sexual dimorphism cues in a similar way. We have also tested whether there were differences in the facial width to height ratio (fWHR) between the sexes in all the populations. We have also wondered if the populations differed in the variance of facial skin colouration. Raters from all the populations saw feminine women as attractive. Turks and Czechs found masculine men as attractive, while Iranian women found more average Iranian men as attractive. Averageness positively predicted the attractiveness of the Czech and Turkish faces of both sexes. Older and more average Czech men were considered more masculine by Czech women. More average and younger Czech...
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Wedding rings - their meaning, symbolism and attractiveness for current marriage
Proroková, Amálie ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
This diploma thesis brings suggestions into the field of couple and family psychology. The main topic of this thesis is wedding rings regarded from the perspective of psychology. The theoretical part develops topics such as the history and the symbolism of rings in general to subsequently focus particularly on wedding rings. Significant attention is also paid to the marriage and couple problematics, the wedding - thanks to which we have the ring - and also to narrower psychological issues such as the wedding ring effect, the attractiveness of the wedding ring itself or the issue of wearing the ring. The final part is dedicated to the variations of treating the wedding ring. In the empirical part, a data collection in the form of semi-structured interviews with subsequent qualitative analysis, was conducted. The total number of participants is thirteen. Participation of respondents in a variable life situation: newly-wed people, people in a long- term marriage, divorced and widowed people. The objective of the thesis was to capture the depth probe into the perception of the meaning and the value of the wedding ring by the wearers themselves and to find most important questions that can be associated with this symbolic phenomenon. The thesis covers issues such as the attractiveness of the wedding...
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Návrh pro zvýšení rekreační atraktivity Moravskobudějovického mikroregionu
Nykrmajerová, Zuzana
The aim of this thesis is the evaluation of recreational potential of micro-region Moravskobudějovicko. Main goal is to make the drafts, which should improve the tourism in chosen micro-region. Both for locals and tourists. The thesis contains the research in publications related to recreation, tourism, free time and the possibilities of developing the rural tourism. The main part of the thesis is characteristics of micro-region and the evaluation of present recreational attractiveness in each municipality. The proposals to increase the recreational use are made from structured interviews with the representatives of chosen municipalities and also from field survey. In the end are summarized results and made suggestions for developing micro-region as an attractive recreational area.
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Approach of Evolutionary Psychology to Research of Human Sexuality and Mate Choice
Binter, Jakub ; Klapilová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Weiss, Petr (referee) ; Konečná, Martina (referee)
This thesis focusses on choice of partner, courtship, and stability of relationship. The emphasized phenomenon within this field are namely evolutionary origins of attractiveness and attraction, endocrine, behavioral, verbal and paraverbal displays. The courtship in this thesis is divided into three major phases - attractivity, proceptivity and receptivity - following suggestion of Beach, Freund and Money. Each of these phases is typical by certain types of behavior and reaction, such as hormonal response, vocal displays as is described in review of literature in the theoretical part. In the second, practical part, consists of four articles that address one specific phenomenon at time. The first article is focused on choice of partners in real world and their presence in sexual fantasy repertoire. The second article addresses vocal modulation when speaking to member of opposite sex who we find attractive or unattractive. The third article introduces hormonal response on possibility of gaining and loss of a potential partner in virtual courtship scenario. And finally, the fourth discusses role of female orgasm in relation to sexual and overall satisfaction in the relationship. The studies are original, and bring innovative insight to human mate-choice and courting, providing further scientific...
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