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Sexual imprinting in humans in comparative perspective
Pražská, Veronika ; Havlíček, Jan (advisor) ; Landová, Eva (referee)
Sexual imprinting is a specific form of learning, which was originally defined as the development of a cognitive model of sexual partner based on parental characteristics. This model subsequently influences the mate preferences in adulthood. Imprinting is characterized by difficult modifications of the acquired model and specific sensitivity for this type of learning in fixed period of ontogenesis. However, it remains an open question whether above described definition of imprinting can be applied to the development of the human mate preferences. Recently, it was pointed out that filial and sexual imprinting should be treated separately. However, many previous studies didn't reflect upon this distinction. Probably, function of filial imprinting is recognition of own species, the sexual imprinting affects preferences on sexual partner. Sexual imprinting could be also a mechanism of avoidance of in/outbreeding. Considering that in humans we can only speculate about the role of the parental imprinting, we will mainly focus on the critical review of studies on sexual imprinting. Results of some studies point out, that the effect of positive sexual imprinting can be modulated by a quality of the parent-offspring relationship. Apart from the positive sexual imprinting, we will further focus on negative...
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Parental influece on mate choice and satisfaction in long-term realitonship
Štěrbová, Zuzana ; Varella Valentova, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Klapilová, Kateřina (referee)
The main aim of this study is to contribute to understanding of family influence on mate choice and satisfaction in long-term relationship. Studies suggest that family has significant influence on mate choice. According to the theory of sexual imprinting, individual create an image of the opposite sex parent during early childhood, which is in adulthood used as a template for partner choice (Bereczkei et al., 2002). However, in accordance with phenotype matching theory, the preference for similar traits like parents have, could be preferences for self-similarity, because they share with parents a half of genom. So it could means, that they prefer self-similar traits more than parent-similar traits (Rushton, 1989). Fourty nine couples participated in our research and also partner and parents of our respondents filled a set of standardized questionnaires. In the second study women evaluated male somatotypes and completed a questionnaire on the relationship with their father during childhood. The study showed many interesting results. Studyies aimed on sexual imprinting have focused only on the influence of the opposite sex parent (Wiszewska et al., 2007), however, we found that the parent of same sex influences partner choice of their offspring too. These findings support more the phenotypic matching...
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